[systemd-devel] getty at .service.m4 and serial-getty at .service.m4

[Michael Biebl]

On 11.11.2010 12:39, Andrew Edmunds wrote:
> Kay, Lennart,
> 
> Kay Sievers wrote:
>> Michael, any chance to check if it's possible to avoid the mangling of
>> common util-linux tool names, and get a symlink in Debian package?
>> After that we can drop the ifdef stuff here.
> 
> We can ask, but it has been that way for at least a decade so I'm
> guessing it's unlikely to be changed now. See this Debian bug from
> 2001, marked wontfix.
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=117596
> 
> The Debian position actually seems quite logical to me.  Why do Fedora
> (and SUSE?) need to ship two different versions of getty and hence
> call one of them "alternate getty"?  Other people seem to manage quite
> well with only one.

I personally don't know the history of agetty resp. getty. [1]
But if we want the declare the getty implementation within util-linux as sort-of
the default, being bold and claiming the name "getty" might actually be a good idea.

Regards,
Michael

[1] e.g. I didn't know that a stands for alternate
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