when startup delays become bugs

[Michal Schmidt]

On 05/15/2013 12:56 AM, Jeffrey Bastian wrote:
> The slowest component on F19 is this new "wait" service:
>           10.102s NetworkManager-wait-online.service
>
> This service doesn't seem to do anything other than wait until the
> network is fully up.  This really skews unfavorably the boot time
> reported by systemd-analyze.  But if I mask that service and reboot,
> everthing still appears to work fine and systemd-analyze reports a boot
> time of only 6.2 seconds.

A bit OT...

This is not the first time in this thread that someone mentions masking 
a service. Do you guys have a reason why you mask the service instead of 
simply disabling it? Is there anything pulling the service into your 
boot even when it's disabled?

Thanks,
Michal