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McRae: Are We Removing What Defines Arch Linux?

Posted Aug 19, 2012 20:19 UTC (Sun) by Eckhart (guest, #74500)
In reply to: McRae: Are We Removing What Defines Arch Linux? by Cyberax
Parent article: McRae: Are We Removing What Defines Arch Linux?

> Nope. SysV doesn't do anything with dependencies. It's entirely up to script's author to deal with them. It might have been handled in your particular scripts, but it's certainly not universal.

Cortana just wants to point out that there are some hacks in SysV init scripts that are not supported anymore with systemd.
In the given example, several services have been merged into a single init script to overcome the (non-existant) dependency handling of SysV. Systemd isn't able to handle this script properly, since it assumes that starting an already-running service isn't possible.

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McRae: Are We Removing What Defines Arch Linux?

Posted Aug 19, 2012 20:24 UTC (Sun) by anselm (subscriber, #2796) [Link]

I don't think systemd must support every single hack that is possible in SysV init scripts if it is trivial to do the same thing natively and it works better afterwards, too.