'Twas brillig, and Lennart Poettering at 03/07/12 01:26 did gyre and gimble: > On Sat, 30.06.12 13:47, Paul Menzel (paulepan...@users.sourceforge.net) wrote: > >>>> 509ms vdr.service >>>> 487ms sysfsutils.service >>> >>> What is this? This stuff sounds like something that can just go away... >> >> I was surprised too. It looks like this was installed by >> `grml-debootstrap` and I removed it using the following command. >> >> $ sudo aptitude purge --purge-unused sysfsutils > > I pretty sure this is a package to remove from the distribution > entirely. > >>> Hmm, as a system service? Meh.. >> >> Well, no. Debian still ships an init.d script which reads >> `/etc/default/pulseaudio` and there system mode is disabled by default. >> So I masked this one too. >> >> $ sudo systemctl mask pulseaudio.service > > Hmm, dounds a bit strange that on Debian you enable/disable that script > via a file in /etc/default, even though sysv already has a mechanism for > this, which is the done by update-rcd, right? Sounds like two levels of > turning things off where one would be sufficient and less confusing...
Maybe it's just a protection against users own lack of knowledge. e.g. if they see a pulseaudio service and think "hey I use pulseaudio, this should be enabled" and then enable it, they will suddenly find themselves switched to pulseaudio system-wide mode (not generally recommended) rather than pulseaudio per-user mode (recommended). Just a guess, but I'd personally say that if you are going to ship an initscript for PA at all (I try to avoid it) then just include it in a separate sub-package. Speaking of which... assuming a time when systemd user sessions are the norm, can a system service conflict with a user service? e.g. say we had pulseaudio.service active (thus a system-wide instance), it should really conflict with the user pulseaudio.service... Anyway way to achieve that? Might be a bit of a strange use case to be honest. Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie 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/ _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
