is systemctl here to stay?
 

my personal laptop has been running Fedora 17, and I am mostly happy with it. But I am wondering if systemctl is here to stay?
What do others think?
Does anyone else think RHEL will roll it into their server builds in the next release?

Personally, I feel the command-line structure is a step back from the simple `chkconfig` and I don't think is intuitive at all. At first I thought it was just growing pains having to learn something new ..... but after many months I still have to look up the man pages to do simple list items ... I feel it's a PIA.

systemctl is at least the 4th way of starting up services:

• rc.local, rc.net, etc - everything started by scripts
• /etc/inittab - allowed starting different things in different runlevels
• /etc/init.d and chkconfig - makes it easier to specify enable and disable
• /etc/init and systemctl - allows dependencies for starting and stopping

so here to stay is relative, it seems to be a frequently changed feature.

It isn't in RHEL 6 yet, but I would be surprised if it doesn't show up eventually.
It solves some problems for order of startup that chkconfig can't.

I guess my impression is that chkconfig is being phased out. Oh well, I am sure once I start having to use it at work (RHEL7?) the syntax will sink in.

chkconfig is phased out. It is not really systemd compatible (systemd is the new init system of Fedora) and therefore systemctl is the new tool of choice.