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[Paul W. Frields]

On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 09:40:53AM +0100, Lars E. Pettersson wrote:
> On 12/02/14 02:45, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> >Well, it was originally meant to be default in Fedora 14 and there were
> >many discussions about it.  it is been years since that point. Perhaps
> >people didn't pay attention to it and didn't realize it but it wasn't
> >snuck in when people weren't looking.  There were literally hundreds of
> >mails on the subject before it become default.
> 
> Well, to be frank, it was sold to solve the issue of start up time of
> computers. It has then evolved to almost transfer the GNU/Linux concept to
> systemd/Linux. And this is something that has to be addressed, even on on a
> users list. Users use Fedora too, you know :) and might have usable (users)
> views on the subject.

This is incorrect.  The actual problems systemd was meant to solve
include but are not limited to:

* Properly sorting dependencies of services
* Simplifying startup configuration
* Allowing arbitrary levels of startup
* Allowing sysadmins more control over resource utilization

The fact that the parallelization in systemd permits faster startup
time was a side benefit.

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