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Hmm, I perhaps didn't quite catch this. I thought having a generator would let you be less committed to it, as you wouldn't need to manually write all the init

• nubinetwork 3mo ago
  Writing a basic init script is less intensive than having to learn the entire "schema" for both script formats, which you'd probably want to know if you were writing the generator.
  • _flux 3mo ago
    Yes, but one only needs to write it once, and then everyone could use it. It could probably even be packaged as an official Debian package.
    • simoncion 3mo ago
      > Yes, but one only needs to write it once... ...and then keep up with behavioral changes that the Systemd Project people introduce and load-bearing bugs that services end up relying on for lifecycle management. OpenRC service files are easy to write, and their schema is far far simpler than that of Unit files. [0] It's really not worth the effort to write and maintain an converter, if for no other reason than you need to understand the semantics of both systems' service files to double-check the results of the converter. [0] <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48717056 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48717056>
    • JdeBP 3mo ago
      It's wild to see people having this argument in the subjunctive in 2026. I've had a convert-systemd-units tool since 2014, and provided Debian packages for the toolset that it is part of for around that long. * https://jdebp.uk/Softwares/nosh/guide/commands/convert-systemd-units.xml https://jdebp.uk/Softwares/nosh/guide/commands/convert-syste... * https://jdebp.uk/Softwares/nosh/guide/converting-systemd-units.html https://jdebp.uk/Softwares/nosh/guide/converting-systemd-uni... * https://jdebp.uk/Softwares/nosh/debian-binary-packages.html https://jdebp.uk/Softwares/nosh/debian-binary-packages.html
  • yjftsjthsd-h 3mo ago
    Writing a script is easy. But converting a whole system of .service files seems like a great time to automate.