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On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Stroller |
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<stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On 31 July 2013, at 19:09, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: |
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>> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Stroller |
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>> <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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>>> On 31 July 2013, at 18:23, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>>>> ... |
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>>>> Whinging about systemd binaries being installed is valid, but whinging |
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>>>> about some data files is not. Anyone who does is letting their OCD show |
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>>>> in ways they really should be keeping private. |
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>>> Hmmmn, it's a bit freaking weird - if I'm understanding correctly some of the statements made here about systemd - that there will be files installed to /etc/init.d/ that don't actually do anything. |
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>> If you use systemd, all the files installed in /etc/init.d (except |
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>> functions.sh) don't actually do nothing. |
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> Right, which is a bit freakin' odd, because on most every previous distro and other *nix system, that's where the system administrator goes to start and stop services. |
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> If they're not used, in this case, I don't think they should be installed. |
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> /etc/init.d is wholly different from /usr/share/package-name/examples |
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> There are many other directories on the system where it's no problem to have some idle, unused, "wasted" files, but /etc/init.d has long been an important directory. |
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That was one of the reasons I started the gentoo-systemd-only overlay; |
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if you used systemd, and tried to run "/etc/init.d/whatever start", |
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the results would vary from "annoying" to "catastrophic". |
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Nowadays you get the following warning: |
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* You are attempting to run an openrc service on a |
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* system which openrc did not boot. |
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* You may be inside a chroot or you may have used |
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* another initialization system to boot this system. |
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* In this situation, you will get unpredictable results! |
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* If you really want to do this, issue the following command: |
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* touch /run/openrc/softlevel |
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So it's pretty harmless. I believe the same applies for the files in |
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/etc/init.d (or /usr/lib/systemd/system) that for the files in |
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/etc/cron.daily, or /etc/bash_completion.d. |
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They should be installed unconditionally. If you don't like it, |
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INSTALL_MASK'd them. |
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Regards. |
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Canek Peláez Valdés |
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Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
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