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

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From: zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
To: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>,
 Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>,
 30464 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#30464: [PATCH 0/2] Add console-agetty-service.
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2022 03:33:22 +0100

Hi,

For reference <http://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/30464> from 2018.


On Thu, 13 Jan 2022 at 17:02, zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com> wrote:

> This patch #30464 series [1] had been submitted on Feb 2018 and after a
> drifting discussion, the last message is:
>
>
> On Thu, 08 Oct 2020 at 14:21, Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> The discussion drifted a bit…  :-)
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>
>> Any update on this?
>
> Therefore, any update on this?

Without any update on this, I plan to mark it as ’donewontfix’ in a
couple of weeks.  Let me know if it is worth to keep it open.


Cheers,
simon

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