On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 9:36 PM, Tom H <tomh0...@gmail.com> wrote: > Since Gentoo's rpcbind.service has "Wants=rpcbind.target" and > "Before=rpcbind.target"", having nfs-server.service depend on > rpcbind.target rather than rpcbind.service should work as long as > rpcbind.service is enabled. > > But having "Requires=rpcbind.service" and "After=rpcbind.service", > like nfsd.service has/had, means that you don't have to enable > rpcbind.service. >
I was just looking at that and thinking the same thing. Nothing is really forcing rpcbind to load the way things are specified right now. If a service really requires another service to operate, it should say that. There is no problem doing that via a target, but then the target still needs to pull it in. There seems a general tendency in systemd to express dependencies as "after" instead of "requires." That is fine if the service doesn't really require something else, but if there really is a true dependency then it just causes problems when somebody doesn't notice and fails to enable the other unit. -- Rich
