On: The real motivation behind systemd (2018)

[bayindirh]

systemd fighting against other daemons without any warnings and error messages is my absolute favorite.

Not being able to list which components are enabled and not being able to format output of "list-units" for easy machine readability are close seconds.

I mean, if OpenStack guys has figured this out, self-proclaimed demigods of Linux can do that, amirite?

[rascul → bayindirh]

> not being able to format output of "list-units" for easy machine readability are close seconds.

Seems like 'systemctl -o json list-units' might be what you want.

[blueflow → rascul]

As of systemd 252, this is undocumented functionality. -o is only specified for systemctl status.

[rascul → blueflow]

I noticed that, tried it anyway, and it worked. Would probably be helpful if it was properly documented.