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McRae: Are We Removing What Defines Arch Linux?

McRae: Are We Removing What Defines Arch Linux?

Posted Aug 19, 2012 6:27 UTC (Sun) by cmccabe (guest, #60281)
In reply to: McRae: Are We Removing What Defines Arch Linux? by cortana
Parent article: McRae: Are We Removing What Defines Arch Linux?

SysV init doesn't have support for dependencies. Adding a call to "service restart smbd" in the networking start scripts is a horrible, horrible hack.

If we're going to talk about horrible, horrible hacks, the obvious thing to do is add an smbd sysv init script, and an nmbd sysv init script, and have the one call the other. Meanwhile, if you use systemd, it will just work.


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