'Twas brillig, and Michael Scherer at 27/01/12 15:52 did gyre and gimble: > Le vendredi 27 janvier 2012 à 10:07 +0000, Colin Guthrie a écrit : >> 'Twas brillig, and Olav Vitters at 27/01/12 00:00 did gyre and gimble: >>> Daemons will work under sysvinit. Just need to be installed >> >> Cool, I'll keep it in mind. They shouldn't need anything special to be >> honest and I think systemd is required by basesystem anyway > > I fear some people may not like this, can we avoid adding a hard > requires, and in this case, split the package ? > > ( or at least, if we cannot do otherwise, we need to document it, and > how to disable systemd in the release notes, with clear instruction. > People will complain, but we will answer "this is documented" ).
Systemd is just installed, it doesn't mean it's used. You need to install systemd-sysvinit for it to replace sysvinit. While I'm sure we could split the package up, I'm not really sure how much it gains in practice other than a few kb of disk space. Col -- Colin Guthrie colin(at)mageia.org http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/
