Re: [gentoo-user] *draft* for setting up network bridge with systemd (for qemu/kvm)

[Stefan G. Weichinger]

Am 29.01.2013 20:23, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés:

> I really believe the most important thing abount systemd unit files is
> that they are small and simple. You can also check the exit status
> from each command in the script, or even better, you can do a test
> after all the commands are done to check the status of the bridge and
> see if it was created correctly.
>
> None of this belongs in the unit service, IMO. Otherwise, you end
> creating ssh keys and user groups in unit files, and none of this
> belongs there. Clear separation between the services and the init
> system.
>
> But of course, as I said to Stefan, if it works it works.

As I mentioned it is a first version ... just to make things work.

If all the services/daemons/stuff work with systemd then I am able to
use it as default init-system here and I don't have switch back to
openrc to do my work (for example when I need KVM-based virtualization
on my workstation).

I agree with your argument that unitfiles should be as small and simple
as possible, on the other hand those commands just get pulled in from
elsewhere: the complexity is just moved out of sight, right?

I did quite some research to find more elegant solutions ... so far I
wasn't successful.

For now I am happy to get my itches scratched ... I am absolutely ready
to learn and improve things. Sharing my first steps here maybe helps to
motivate other gentoo-users to give systemd a try?

Regards, Stefan