[Mageia-dev] init=systemd

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Olivier Blin at 11/12/11 13:56 did gyre and gimble:
> Thomas Backlund <tmb at mageia.org> writes:
> 
>> Charles A Edwards skrev 8.12.2011 01:40:
>>> I've noticed on the latest tmb kernels (those after 3.0.8-1) that
>>> init=systemd is now being auto added to the lilo append.
>>>
>>> Thankfully that did not cause a boot issue on this system for I am
>>> still using sysvinit here and Not systemd-sysvinit.
>>>
>>> Should it now be auto added with kernels on all systems???
>>>
>>
>> AFAIK it should only happend if you had it on the command line for the
>> kernel you was running when you installed next kernel.
> 
> Well, init=/bin/systemd is forced by drakxtools on each kernel install,
> if /bin/systemd exists (which means always, since systemd is required by
> basesystem). See /usr/lib/libDrakX/bootloader.pm
> 
> This is pretty bad, we should not do it if we still want to keep
> sysvinit compatibility in Mageia 2.
> 

Oh boy, I certainly wasn't aware of that bit of code. It seems crazy
code to me (duplicating what installing systemd-sysvinit package does.
There is literally no need for that whole section, so I'd just strip it out.

Col

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