[ale] systemd bad. Very bad.

[Steve Litt]

On Fri, 30 Jun 2017 08:49:44 -0400
Joey Kelly <joey at joeykelly.net> wrote:

> On Friday 30 June 2017 12:56:32 Solomon Peachy wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 12:13:45PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:  
> > > Hey Soloman, this is Steve Litt you're talking to, not some
> > > half-witted dweeb susceptable to Pid Eins type logical fallacies.
> > > Comparing systemd to sysvinit is a false choice fallacy.  
> > 
> > First, please spell my name correctly.  It's just sloppy.

Unintentional mistake. Sorry.

> > Second, I don't know you from Adam.  Are you claming that I should
> > just accept what you say becasue of who you are?  (Hey, that's also
> > an "appeal to authoirty" fallacy! Isn't logic wonderful?)

I find it a good idea, if I'm going to get in a protracted discussion
with someone, to take 5 minutes to see what [s]he's written before on
the list, and on the Internet as a whole. So I knew better than to
attribute Solomon's systemd enthusiasm to working in the Red Hat
sphere, which would have been embarrassing. I also found that most
mentions of systemd caused Solomon to pop up and support systemd, and
when arguments ensued, to trot out the old Pid Eins fallacies.

If Solomon had taken 5 minutes to look me up, he'd find out I'm
disgusted by systemd because of its thick and promiscuous interfaces,
and by the way it's promoted, and he'd find out that I've initted with
runit every day for 2 years, and I've documented the installation of
various alternate init systems, and the procedures in that
documentation have been reproduced by others. And he would have
concluded that comparisons with sysvinit would bounce off me like ping
pong balls.

> > 
> > Third, I shouldn't have to point out that, here, you're judged on
> > what you write.  

With the possible exception of one post in this thread, I'd be pleased
as punch to have potential customers read them. Perhaps I shouldn't
have publicly laughed at Solomon's telling Joey "I guess I do have a
lot more to learn".

SteveT

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