On Friday 08 December 2017 14:26:41 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 07:09:06PM +0100, Menelaos Maglis wrote: > >>> > Basically, it was a completely inconsistent mess before systemd. > >>> > Now you at least have a central place where you can configure > >>> > your system behaviour. > >> > >> In the past, we had *no consistency*: inittab had one thing, > >> display managers another, ACPI scripts another...if you wanted a > >> specific policy, you had to change three or more separate systems. > >> > >> Along came [a new system] which provided a single place to define a > >> consistent policy. > > > >systemd provides a single place to define a consistent policy, > > provided your system uses systemd. > > That's a good point. > > >Debian GNU/Linux offers alternative init systems, which people choose > >and use. They have their, often different, "default" settings. > > It would perhaps be a good idea for the policy to be determined in an > init-agnostic way.o > > >In anycase, it should be a documented configuration option to allow > >for alternative use cases. > > No objection there, and I agree that the release notes should probably > have covered the policy changes. That ship has now sailed > unfortunately.
So now, no effort will ever be made to fix the man pages. Hell of a way to run a train. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
