Allegedly, on or about 5 November 2017, Sam Varshavchik sent:
Now, as I see it, this boils down to a one word, simple question:
Why?
Do we really expect that one should actually do that?
Using privoxy as an illustrative example: is it really so
unreasonable to expect that installing a package called "privoxy",
and if this "privoxy" package requires all IP addresses to be up,
before it runs, then installing this package makes sure that this
actually happens, that it starts up after all network interfaces are
up?
I tend to agree. But rather than thinking that a packet that requires
a running network ought to start another waiting service to get it to
wait for the right moment. Ought to depend on *that* waiting service,
rather than listen to the wrong service.
There's any number of services on Fedora that should be waiting for a
network is operational status, rather than a network is starting
status. They should depend on a service that actually provides that
information, not rely on something else to delay the wrong thing that
they're listening to.
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