[arch-general] libsystemd to systemd

Kevin Chadwick ma1l1ists at yahoo.co.uk
Fri Aug 31 11:44:12 EDT 2012


> People are grumbling about this compatibility layer, and I might
> change/remove it at some point. The reason I still have not ripped it
> out is that I like the fact that your system will "just work" as
> before if you add init=/bin/systemd to the kernel command line.
> Without the compatibility layer you'd have to also enable the relevant
> services (I guess that's not too much to ask though...).
>

I think it's asking more than commenting out the DAEMONS line?


> > I assumed they were used a little, if they are unused why are they
> > required, dependencies?  
> 
> Not entirely sure what you are asking. systemd-tools used to be a
> dependency of initscripts (it is used all over the place), now
> systemd-tools was merged into systemd, so systemd is a dependency of
> initscripts. Does that answer your question?


Thanks yeah, rc.sysinit explains the rest

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