On Wed, 2 Jan 2019, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 9:14 AM Michael Chapman <m...@very.puzzling.org> wrote: > > > What good is an activation dependency without an ordering dependency? > > > > The problem is that it's not necessarily clear _which_ ordering dependency > > is required. systemd can't just assume one way or the other. > > > > > I have two services on my system, A.service and B.service, where A.service > > Wants=B.service but is ordered Before=B.service. The reason for this is > > that when I start A I want B to be automatically started too, but B cannot > > function without A being active. > > And A can't function without B being active? So basically a circular > dependency?
No, not a circular dependency. A can function without B. I just want B to start whenever A starts, but I want B to start _after_ A starts. _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
