On 2019-09-17 11:10 -0500, David Wright wrote:
>
> Well, the only link *needed* is init, hence its dependency on package
> init, whose sole function is to keep the number of init configurations
> more than zero and less than two.
>
> The rest of those links just mean that I can read, say, a 60 line man
> page for shutdown instead of the 1270 lines of man systemctl.
>
> So it does seem odd to name the package after some links of
> convenience rather than its prime function of associating systemd
> (/lib/systemd/systemd) with /sbin/init.
The other symlinks are also pretty important, since other software on
the system relies on them. For instance, the kernel invokes
/sbin/poweroff and /sbin/reboot to power off or reboot the machine under
some circumstances. Have a look at kernel/reboot.c in the Linux kernel
tree.
Cheers,
Sven
