Services that can start by default policy feedback
Matthew Garrett
mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Fri Feb 25 18:22:25 UTC 2011
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 09:46:08AM -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 06:32:44PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > There are no essential services, which means any proposal that contains
> > the phrase "non-essential services" is already unimplementable.
> >
> You've said this many times and it seems that you do it to be
> obstructionist. The constructive way to deal with this is to start making
> a list of what people really mean by "essential" and then propose alternate
> words to use.
Like Jesse said, my objection here is that using the word "essential"
just results in us being doomed to argue over what "essential" means.
A literal interpretation of "essential" means "start init and have it
launch a getty". I don't think anyone's advocating that that be the
outcome of a vanilla Fedora install. An alternative would be "Essential
for a traditional UNIX experience", which would seem to preclude dbus. I
don't think that's a rational outcome either. So we end up with
"Essential for providing an experience consistent with what we feel a
vanilla Fedora install should provide", which means you haven't actually
defined "essential" at all. So don't say "essential". Say what you mean.
> I think, by essential, some people mean:
>
> start the bare minimum so I don't have to start any additional services to:
>
> ... I don't want anything but init and a shell [*]
> ... log into a getty
> ... log in over the network
> ... log into a desktop
> ... do any client-side operations
That's my point. If people have different interpretations of "essential"
then any policy using the word "essential" is meaningless. You need to
define "essential" - and if you're doing that then you don't need to use
the word in the first place.
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