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Legibility. Good UI.

Those are what I liked about OpenRC when I ran Gentoo for a few years in the ‘00s, anyway. Only init system I’ve ever actually liked.




What exactly about shell scripts do you find legible? Control flow and error handling in shell scripts is a complete disaster.


As a user, I mean. It was very easy to tell what it was doing, understand why, and was pleasant to interact with the tools for managing that. I rarely write init scripts.




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