[systemd-devel] How to get rid of this ordering cycle?

[Lennart Poettering]

On Thu, 14.08.14 14:31, Simon McVittie (simon.mcvittie at collabora.co.uk) wrote:

> In Debian, support for sysvinit scripts in rcS was patched back in to
> avoid breaking existing software, because it's unlikely that all of the
> packages listed in
> <http://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=Default-Start%3A\s*S> will get a
> native systemd unit any time soon. Most of them probably doesn't
> actually need to run in rcS - nvi? seriously? - but if fixing them all
> was on the critical path for adopting systemd, we'd probably still be
> using sysvinit for years to come.

I have the suspicion that this creates as many problems as it
solves... That's why we removed support for that, especially since
there's no realy standard about this anyway...

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat