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[PATCH 0/2] Add console-agetty-service.

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Message #41 received at 30464 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>
Cc: 30464 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#30464] [PATCH 1/2] services: Add console-agetty-service.
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 18:52:45 +0100

Hi Danny,

The discussion drifted a bit…  :-)

ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:

> Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org> skribis:

[...]

>> It doesn't make sense to have agetty itself depend on syslogd because
>> agetty can be (and usually is) used for modems etc which have nothing
>> to do with the local console.
>
> Alright.
>
> How about adding a ‘dependencies’ field to <agetty-configuration>?  It’d
> default to the empty list, and could be set to '(syslogd) in this case.
>
> Does that sound too obscure to you, or would it be OK?

Thoughts?  The ‘dependencies’ hack looks simple enough and would solve
this immediate need, I think.

Ludo’.

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