[systemd-devel] [PATCH] install: Assume *.wants symlinks have the same name as their target for scalability.

David Timothy Strauss david at davidstrauss.net
Thu Dec 12 11:06:21 PST 2013


On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 8:36 PM, Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar at gmail.com> wrote:
> This completely changes semantic of what it does. In this case no
> symlink is needed in the first place - just
> "touch .../unit.wants/other.unit" would be enough, as long as we assume
> units can only be located in standard config paths.

That's interesting. I hadn't thought of that option. The only downside
would be the loss of shell tooling related to finding stale symlinks.


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