On Thursday 21 August 2014 at 19:32:01, Simon McVittie wrote:   
> On 21/08/14 19:12, Ivan Shapovalov wrote:
> > Actually, I don't pretty understand the reasoning behind skipping the 
> > default
> > dependencies on /usr mount
> 
> (Some of) the default dependencies require that /usr is mounted, so
> mounting /usr cannot depend on them, to avoid a cycle.
> 
> (Or to put it the way round: normal, non-early-boot services should be
> able to assume that /usr is mounted so that they can rely on files in
> /usr/lib or /usr/share without explicitly declaring extra dependencies,
> which again means /usr can't depend on the default dependencies.)

Understood, thanks.

(For the original discussion: so is it better to explicitly "Before=usr.mount"?)

-- 
Ivan Shapovalov / intelfx /

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