lee writes:
I don't mind this idea. Yet when I disable something, I expect it to be
disabled.
This is another terminology issue, which I think should be viewed
separately from the merits/demerits of systemd itself. And I'm inclined to
agree that the terms are poorly chosen.
I guess the concept of 'mask' is as in to disguise, as in to hide. For me,
that's two steps of abstraction and I don't normally infer the second from
the first. So it throws me too.
--
David Benfell
See
https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 if you do not understand the
attachment.