Pretty sure they meant the whole “do one thing, do it well, and prefer composition” part.
But I’m more interested in what parts of systemd don’t follow the file metaphor, and what things you think shouldn’t follow that metaphor? How would you interact with those things?
But it doesn’t follow the Unix Philosophy!
GNU is Not Unix
…“No, not like that”
Who cares? It makes my life so much easier!
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
not everything needs to be a file.
in fact most things shouldn’t.
Pretty sure they meant the whole “do one thing, do it well, and prefer composition” part.
But I’m more interested in what parts of systemd don’t follow the file metaphor, and what things you think shouldn’t follow that metaphor? How would you interact with those things?
journalctl. I don’t give a damn as to where the logs are, and I just have telljournalctlto give me the logs for whatever I want.