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On Sat, Feb 10 2018, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 10:02 PM, allan gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu> wrote: |
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>> On Sat, Feb 10 2018, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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>>> Interesting. Does /sbin/reboot exist? |
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>> gottlieb@E6430 ~ $ ls -l /sbin/reboot |
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>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Jan 28 13:08 /sbin/reboot -> ../bin/systemctl |
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>>> What does "qfile /sbin/reboot" return? |
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>> gottlieb@E6430 ~ $ qfile /sbin/reboot |
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>> sys-apps/systemd (/sbin/reboot) |
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> Ok, your systemd is built with USE=sysv-utils. |
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>>> Ultimately it comes down to whether you care about the compatibility |
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>>> symlinks. It probably isn't a bad idea to have them though. Maybe |
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>>> some day you'll install a UPS and its shutdown scripts will just call |
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>>> shutdown/poweroff/etc and not work. Software that shuts down using |
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>>> either systemctl or dbus would be fine. |
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>> Since you lean toward having the symlinks, why is the new default for |
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>> the use flag on? Upstream? |
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> When the flag is on the symlinks are created. They're only missing |
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> (from systemd) when the flag is off. |
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>> Also why do I have the symlinks with the 236-r5 system, contracting the |
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>> news item. (This is true for both machines.) |
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> You have them because the default is USE=sysv-utils, which installs |
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> the symlinks. |
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> The real question is why euse didn't show you has having the flag |
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> enabled. That I'm not sure about. It shows it as enabled on my |
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> system. I'd have to dig into where it is getting its data and how |
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> this might get out of sync. |
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> To avoid a second email - a lack of depcleaning might explain why |
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> software like openrc/netifrc is still installed. I don't believe it |
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> has anything to do with the output of euse. |
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Thank you (and dale) again. |
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allan |