[Arm-netbook] severe systemd bugs (two of them)

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Tue, Jul 04, 2017 at 11:44:33AM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 10:42 AM, Elena ``of Valhalla''
> <valhalla-l at trueelena.org> wrote:
> 
> >> > Openrc is included in Debian.
> 
> > It was one of the candidates considered when deciding what init system
> > to adopt, altought it had much less support than systemd or upstart (and
> > I suspect it's even less tested than sysvinit).
> 
>  yeahh it was a pity it hadn't had as much mindshare: i've installed
> it by default on the parabola gnu/linux-libre eoma68-a20 images and,
> whilst it works well, it feels a little... odd.  perhaps that's down
> to being unfamiliar with it, or that parabola / archlinux requires
> that if you install e.g. openssh you have to remember to install
> openssh-openrc and then also run a manual command to make sure it's
> enabled at boot time (pacman lacks the postinst functionality of dpkg,
> and archlinux itself seems to lack the concept of setting up "default
> configured behaviour" for services, leaving that to the user
> themself).
> 
>  one good thing: i wasn't aware that openrc could be parallelised:
> it's as simple as adding rc_parallel="YES" to /etc/openrc.conf which i
> will try out very shortly.

Likewise is Debian's variant of sysvinit (and systemd, of course).

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