why do we use systemd?

[lee]

Rahul Sundaram <metherid at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi
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> On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 7:08 PM, lee  wrote:
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>> That is irrelevant.
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> How?

Because disabled means disabled and not something like ondemand.

>> I don't know what you don't understand ---
>> "disabled" means disabled, i. e. cannot be started.
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> No.  That isn't what it means in sysvinit.  It simply means that it isn't
> started on boot.

When the starting of something is disabled, it cannot be started.  It
doesn't matter when you try to start it.

>> Besides, dbus shouldn't start any services, that would be insane.
>
> You can't just deny reality. d-bus is how services have dynamically been
> started by a number of years.   Before systemd, there was no way other way
> to do it.

Then it has been insane for years.


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