For 10 years now, people from the Linux side tell me systemd is so much easier and "Unit-Files" are so much cleaner and better than init-scripts ...
Well, I still don't get it. A well implemented init-system like that of FreeBSD is:
- Clean
- Flexible
- Way more lightweight
- Works with just shell code
I have written a rc.d init-script for zigbee2mqtt today and honestly? It's not going to be shorter than that. Would chose that instead of systemd! ANY TIME! K.I.S.S.
10 years in and I still don't see a real advantage of monolithic-binary init-systems with static configuration files.
