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Poettering: The Biggest Myths

Poettering: The Biggest Myths

Posted Feb 5, 2013 18:55 UTC (Tue) by dgm (subscriber, #49227)
In reply to: Poettering: The Biggest Myths by smurf
Parent article: Poettering: The Biggest Myths

> that's useful on servers with their multiple daemons, because you now no longer need 90% of your boot dependencies

I'm a bit divided about that, exactly because of this. If you don't need them, they should not be there. I fear that this will lead to distros enabling each and every service under the sun, just because they assume it will not get activated, which may or may not be true.


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Poettering: The Biggest Myths

Posted Feb 6, 2013 1:37 UTC (Wed) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129) [Link]

> I fear that this will lead to distros enabling each and every service under the sun
You mean like Debian has been doing for ages?

Poettering: The Biggest Myths

Posted Feb 6, 2013 12:15 UTC (Wed) by smurf (subscriber, #17840) [Link]

You misunderstand.

What I mean is that if Apache needs Mysql, you no longer need to entomb that dependency in your startup scripts.

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