Re: [arch-general] about the removal of that systemd symlink...

2013-05-17 Thread Damjan Georgievski
>> Is it the Arch recommendation to add this kernel option at boot time? >> Or will /sbin/init point to /usr/lib/systemd/systemd for the >> foreseeable future? > > As long as the kernel default for the init process is /sbin/init, we > will keep probably the /sbin/init symlink for systemd. We may ad

Re: [arch-general] about the removal of that systemd symlink...

2013-05-13 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/13/2013 02:32 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > > In any case, booting a default installation without init= is > supported and recommended, and we will make sure it keeps working. > Good. That alleviates a lot of my concern. - -- David Benfell / be

Re: [arch-general] about the removal of that systemd symlink...

2013-05-13 Thread Whiskers
On Mon, 13 May 2013 10:19:36 +0200 Thomas Bächler wrote: >Am 13.05.2013 10:18, schrieb Iru Cai: >> Well, some people seldom read pacman's output. e.g. I use a cron job to >> use pacman to update the system, and I don't read the log very often. > >That's your own fault then. > >>> Why do you think

Re: [arch-general] about the removal of that systemd symlink...

2013-05-13 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 13.05.2013 11:23, schrieb David Benfell: > On 05/13/2013 01:19 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > >> The wiki has told you to use init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd for >> quite some time. > > When I was configuring the bootloaders (grub in two cases, gummiboot > in another), I was following the installat

Re: [arch-general] about the removal of that systemd symlink...

2013-05-13 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/13/2013 01:19 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > > The wiki has told you to use init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd for > quite some time. > When I was configuring the bootloaders (grub in two cases, gummiboot in another), I was following the installation i

Re: [arch-general] about the removal of that systemd symlink...

2013-05-13 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/13/2013 01:03 AM, Karol Blazewicz wrote: > > Not reading pacman's output may lead to problems. Why do you think > it's a bad way? > It's precisely because I *did* read pacman's output that I was alarmed. Like I say, I think it's okay. But I'd l

Re: [arch-general] about the removal of that systemd symlink...

2013-05-13 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/13/2013 12:26 AM, Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: > On Sunday 12 May 2013 22:32:03 David Benfell wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I was alarmed, I think unnecessarily, when I saw the message that >> a symlink for systemd was removed on an upgrade. >> >> As near

Re: [arch-general] about the removal of that systemd symlink...

2013-05-13 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
On Sunday 12 May 2013 22:32:03 David Benfell wrote: > Hi all, > > I was alarmed, I think unnecessarily, when I saw the message that a > symlink for systemd was removed on an upgrade. > > As near as I can tell, the boot sequence still relies on init, which > links to the right place. > > Is there

Re: [arch-general] about the removal of that systemd symlink...

2013-05-13 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 13.05.2013 10:18, schrieb Iru Cai: > Well, some people seldom read pacman's output. e.g. I use a cron job to use > pacman to update the system, and I don't read the log very often. That's your own fault then. >> Why do you think it's a bad way? >> > Maybe some people haven't installed systemd-

Re: [arch-general] about the removal of that systemd symlink...

2013-05-13 Thread Iru Cai
2013/5/13 Karol Blazewicz > On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 7:32 AM, David Benfell > wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I was alarmed, I think unnecessarily, when I saw the message that a > > symlink for systemd was removed on an upgrade. > > > > As near as I can tell, the boot sequence still relies on init, wh

Re: [arch-general] about the removal of that systemd symlink...

2013-05-13 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 7:32 AM, David Benfell wrote: > Hi all, > > I was alarmed, I think unnecessarily, when I saw the message that a > symlink for systemd was removed on an upgrade. > > As near as I can tell, the boot sequence still relies on init, which > links to the right place. > > Is there