systemd and changes

Jeff Garzik jgarzik at pobox.com
Wed Aug 25 00:32:42 UTC 2010


On 08/24/2010 08:01 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Bill Nottingham wrote:
>> Having to support multiple boot paths for the system, making everyone
>> who gets odd bugs filed against kernel, dracut, plymouth, etc. triage them
>> isn't exactly an 'easy fix' - it *adds* complication to both paths.
>
> Right. In fact, I think we're supporting way too many deprecated
> alternatives for way too long, e.g. when will the old legacy "network"
> service which has been deprecated for ages finally be gone?
>
> Of course it makes sense to keep deprecated stuff around when it's needed to
> make things work, e.g. HAL is still needed for KDE right now (but that might
> already be resolved by F15 since work on new u* Solid backends is going
> strong upstream, also thanks to Fedora developers from Red Hat Czech), but I
> don't see anything requiring e.g. the old "network" to stay around.

Isn't "network" needed for people who don't run NetworkManager?

For the longest time, NM only worked predictably for logged-in users, 
which made "network" service a requirement for servers with static IPs 
and such.

	Jeff






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