[Fedora-packaging] Revised systemd Guidelines

Tom Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Fri Dec 3 16:24:59 UTC 2010


On 12/02/2010 10:58 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> Okay -- one thing is whether we want to specifiy that services either
> install unit files or systemvinit files but not both (in the same package.
> A subpackage for the alternate init system would be fine.)  The idea being
> that there's several ways that having the sysvinit can confuse sysadmins.
> Off the top of my head I can think of:

The subpackage idea seems like the cleanest way to permit packagers to
provide this option, but minimize admin confusion.

$foo-sysvinit seems like a sane scheme.

~tom

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