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   Aragorn to All   
   Re: FYI [OT] Mageia 3 Beta 3 released.   
   13 Mar 13 02:50:55   
   
   XPost: alt.os.linux.mageia   
   From: stryder@telenet.be.invalid   
      
   On Tuesday 12 March 2013 20:05, unruh conveyed the following to   
   alt.os.linux.mageia...   
      
   > On 2013-03-12, unruh  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Sorry to sound grumpy, but it is annoying, after having spent 15   
   >> years learing init.d to suddenly have to change for no good reason   
   >> that I can see, except to make things more obscure. I suppose that   
   >> the next thing is to make these files all compiled binary files as   
   >> well, so they are utterly unreadable and useless to the user. And   
   >> then perhaps to put them all into one humungous file.   
   >   
   > Ah, I see they have already gone down that road. All of the files in   
   > /lib/systemd/ ARE binary files, so that there is no way of finding out   
   > what the hell they do, except reading the source code. What fucking   
   > stupidity this is (excuse my language).   
      
   It's called "Lennartware" by (most of) the Gentoo developers. ;-)   
      
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