Andrei Popescu wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > For reasons that I haven't been following there has been a push to > > remove those shutdown links generally from everything. I don't know > > why. Perhaps someone else will comment on why. Removing those links > > seems like it breaks going to single user mode directly from multiuser > > mode but I only go to single user mode from a reboot anyway so I guess > > that is okay. I am sure the reasoning is that the reboot or halt will > > kill everything no matter what so might as well get to it as quickly > > as possible. On a server machine this wouldn't ever be an issue but > > waiting for a laptop to shutdown could be annoying. > > From lurking on debian-devel I can tell that your guess is right on :) > (the motive is to speed-up the shutdown).
Is there a plan for packages to deal with the links that are left behind? Could we, should we, start filing bugs if a package doesn't make the transition cleanly? Is there an explicit abandonment of going to single user mode directly from multuser mode? This certainly breaks it implicitly. However since I always reboot first anyway I can't really complain since I already didn't trust it for that purpose. Thanks, Bob
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