On: Avoiding Complexity with Systemd

[throw0101a]

> Service and runlevel management wasn't any better in the sysv era, nor were any of the multitude of custom start and boot scripts.

Things would have been fine for a lot of people if they had stopped at SysV script replacing, and general start up.

At this point, with all the additional functionality continuously being added, I'm waiting for systemd to fulfil Zawinski's Law:

> Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.

* http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/Z/Zawinskis-Law.html

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski