> The single great strength of the old-style monolithic rc system is
> that virtually every change forces a person to approve it, and people
> generally are going to get it right (or realize their mistake when
> they don't).

> Machines have no such judgement built-in, and have to be taught it
> line by line.  Thus keeping the config system as brain-damagedly
> simple as possible is the easiest way to keep the rest of the
> software from screwing it up.

Eh, no, the simplest way of keeping software from botching it is surely
to make sure that software doesn't even try.

And as you point out, that's something the monolithic style of startup
script does very well.

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