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[PATCH]: Make more services one-shot

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From: Efraim Flashner <efraim <at> flashner.co.il>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 38304 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#38304] [PATCH]: Make more services one-shot
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2019 22:50:11 +0200

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On Sun, Dec 08, 2019 at 10:28:42PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> Efraim Flashner <efraim <at> flashner.co.il> skribis:
> 
> > On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 09:45:44PM +0200, Efraim Flashner wrote:
> >> After changing the sysctl service to use one-shot I found 3 more that
> >> look like they'd be good choices.
> >> 
> >
> > Actually, it looks like agetty and mingetty both rely on the host-name
> > service, so that one doesn't look like a good choice after all.
> 
> Is it a problem, though?  I think they should still get started, even if
> ‘host-name’ is one-shot, no?

I'll try to test this in the next week or so.

> 
> Conceptually, ‘console-keymap’ and ‘console-font’ do not look like
> one-shot to me though: it’s not implemented, but their ‘stop’ method
> could very much restore the previous keymap/font.
> 

I feel like since these commands don't have an 'undo' command from the
terminal or from various DEs (that I know of) that making them one-shot
would make more sense.

Also we wouldn't want the keymap or font to change during shutdown when
services get stopped.

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