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>Scripts need an interpreter. Being Turing-complete, in general information
 
>cannot be extracted from them except by running them. Unit files have a 
>fixed vocabulary of keyword entries, which can be easily enumerated, 
>looked up, whatever. That’s what’s meant by “declarative”.

Sorry but that is nonsense. The code behind those unit files is a lot of
 disparate C.

In my experience init scripts are made entirely of simple commands that are
 documented and editable, piece by piece.

https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/etc/rc?rev=1.572&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup

-- 
Regards, Kc