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   -=> On 08-15-19 20:55, Alexey Vissarionov wrote to Tony Langdon <=-   
      
    TL> Why RPM?   
      
    AV> Besause it is a quality mark.   
      
   That could mean anything.  In my world, it's "marketing speak", and I tend to   
   ignore that without substantiating evidence.   
      
    TL> dpkg offers similar functionality.   
      
    AV> Have you tried building rpm and deb packages?   
      
   Not what I do - irrelevant to me.   
      
    TL> I will use systems that use either.   
      
    AV> Your choice...   
      
   That's what Linux is all about. :)   
      
    AV>> 2. SysV init   
    TL> Sadly, seems to be a dying breed these days, with systemd taking over   
    TL> on a lot of distros.   
      
    AV> We have distributions with both. And even more: some experienced admin   
    AV> may switch from one to other and back again.   
      
   True.  I haven't yet found documentation that I can follow for systemd.  Other   
   than that, I have no issue with it.   
      
    TL> I haven't got my head around systemd, but know one of these days I   
    TL> really need to get to know it, because like it or not, I will be   
    TL> using systems that are based on systemd.   
      
    AV> The old good CentOS 6 will reach EOL this year... and we expect some   
    AV> users moving to us :-)   
      
   us???   
      
    TL> That said, I quite like SysV init. It's straightforward and orderly.   
    TL> Most of my systems still use it.   
      
    AV> Same thing here. The only advantage of systemd is the startup   
    AV> dependencies concept, but that's really easy to implement with SysVinit   
    AV> - just declare "status" command as mandatory.   
      
    AV> E.g. `service nginx start` may check whether `service network status`   
    AV> is "running".   
      
   Yes, not hard to do in SysV.   
      
      
   ... I used to think I was vague ... but now I'm not so sure!!!!!   
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