[systemd-devel] Have custom agetty behaviour even after upgadres

Wulf C. Krueger philantrop at exherbo.org
Tue May 15 08:47:25 PDT 2012


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Hello Lennart,

On 14.05.2012 23:34, Lennart Poettering wrote:
>> I'll bring this closer to home. Why does "make
>> DESTDIR=%{buildroot} install" write to $(sysconfdir) when you've
>> always proclaimed that it's admin territory? Why not write this
>> link as: $(systemunitdir)/getty.target.wants/getty at tty1.service?
> Since this is just about enabling, not about shipping 
> configuration. People will frequently not enable the getty on tty1,
> on servers with serial gettys and on containers for example.

I'd say, leave the entire enabling part to the distro/packager and
don't do the linking at all.

It's up to the distro to decide about a sane default installation with
respect to about every other part of systemd already - why make this
an exception?

- -- 
Best regards, Wulf
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