Hey Josh, Josh Triplett [2015-02-16 17:37 -0800]: > Seems like systemd could take a lesson from Debian packaging metadata > here. Every mail transport agent, rather than conflicting with every > other, has a "Provides: mail-transport-agent" and "Conflicts: > mail-transport-agent", specifically because they all want to provide > /usr/sbin/sendmail and (usually) listen on port 25.
Note that openntpd and chrony both have a Provides: time-daemon, but ntp doesn't. > Unit files could do something similar, if systemd had an appropriate > "virtual service" mechanism. It does, it's called "Alias=" (man systemd.unit). We use it for display-manager already (kind of, as we also have to support the old /etc/X11/default-display-manager config file). Martin -- Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
