On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Lennart Poettering <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 07.10.10 14:00, Lucas De Marchi ([email protected]) wrote: > >> Arch uses the same paths and default font of gentoo. Previously, >> systemd-vconsole-setup was failing with the following message: >> >> systemd-vconsole-setup[59]: /bin/setfont failed with error code 1. > > I have now merged this patch. > > However, let me make clear that I am not a big fan of patches like > this. We intend to drop distro-specific compatiblity kludges from the > systemd tree eventually at which point people should really have > migrated their binaries to some standardized place or from then may > carry on with out-of-tree patches. And this kind of configuring > appropriate paths for the same binaries is the first thing we are going > to kill. > > There's really no point in installing setfont at different places in the > various distributions. And since to me it appears to make more sense to > have those tools in /bin rather than in /usr/bin (since you want > kbd/console set up properly when asking for hdd passwords during early > boot) I think we should declare /bin the standard place for these tools. > > Or in other words: start moving things to standard places now!
I totally agree. I think this serves as a start point to people starting migrating their init. If / when Arch developers decide to totally migrate to systemd, I hope these patches can be dropped. Lucas De Marchi _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
