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Ariadne Conill 🐰:therian:
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@dysfun in general i think it is his strongest quality. he knows enough to get things going on the development side of things, but where he does his best work is in designing tools.

equi
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@ariadne @dysfun hm. Somehow my perception is very different here. The time I've sunk into trying to figure out why systemd is (or is not) doing something while wrangling service files is… significant. And pretty much all of my bubble shares this view: it's great while it works, but as soon as something goes wrong you're left digging for scraps of rare helpful output and trying to divine from manpages what is going on. The tools are /horrible/ at telling you /why/ things are as they are.

Ariadne Conill 🐰:therian:

@equinox @dysfun yes, i agree there, but that’s more a problem of trying to explain failures in a directed graph moreso than it is a fault of systemd itself. even apk fails to describe failures in dependency graphs effectively, and god knows i’ve tried to improve that output…