It is trivial to disable systemd-resolved on any distribution, as well as making systemd-journald disable its logging to forward everything to syslog. I wonder what the GP post's difficulty was?
Just the usual gripes about systemd which get perpetuated by people who don't bother understanding the thing they're annoyed about. Sadly you could say the same thing about pretty much any topic on the internet these days.
> who don't bother understanding the thing they're annoyed about
This is the root cause of the problem. Regular initd + rc scripts are simple enough to be understood by everybody, which systemd is too complex to understand in the limited time we have. There is no "systemd senior developer" or "systemd solutions architect" positions for systemd developers, to adjust investment into systemd ecosystem.
We can easily replace initd by something much more powerful, like perl, javascript, python, java + spring, Emacs, or even Firefox or Eclipse in headless mode. They all are able to read configuration files and launch new processes. But (almost) nobody does so, because they are hard to debug and have very large surface.
>Regular initd + rc scripts are simple enough to be understood by everybody, which systemd is too complex to understand in the limited time we have
On a modern distro, I wouldn't say so, there is so much you would need to add on top of an rc script to get it to work correctly. Once you start trying to make use of the same capabilities it becomes just as complex as systemd, if not moreso. This is beyond just turning it into perl or javascript, I'm talking about OS-level features: for example even a basic Linux feature like mount namespaces is non-trival to do in an rc script and have everything get mounted and cleaned up correctly with all the right settings, whereas this is one or two lines in a systemd unit, and you know it's always going to work. It doesn't help much if you implement it in a shell script or in python versus having it in a systemd unit, this is code someone has to write, and if you say "it's too complex I don't understand it" then that would be limiting you because you're not using the intended security features of the OS. Does that explain it?
