FS#73245 - [systemd] post-install message still recommends init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Sebastian Wiesner (lunaryorn) - Monday, 03 January 2022, 18:07 GMT
Last edited by Christian Hesse (eworm) - Wednesday, 09 February 2022, 18:05 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To Christian Hesse (eworm)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

I just noticed that the systemd post-install script still recommends to add init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd to the kernel command line to replace sysvinit: https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/blob/8fd4bc9aea64be71f4014cb98947c649f7d41271/trunk/systemd.install#L39

Isn't this kind of obsolete these days?
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Closed by  Christian Hesse (eworm)
Wednesday, 09 February 2022, 18:05 GMT
Reason for closing:  Implemented
Additional comments about closing:  in svn
Comment by Christian Hesse (eworm) - Wednesday, 05 January 2022, 21:09 GMT
Well, this is still required if systemd-sysvcompat is not installed, no?
Comment by Sebastian Wiesner (lunaryorn) - Thursday, 06 January 2022, 08:08 GMT
Oh indeed, I wasn't aware that systemd-sysvcompat was installed on my system. I'm very sorry for the noise.

But even so, I don't think the message makes much sense these days. systemd-sysvcompat is a dependency of base, can you even not install it? I thought that everything in base is a must-have and running without any package in base is entirely unsupported. Considering this, does the recommendation to install systemd-sysvcompat make much sense? And sysvinit is long from Arch, isn't it?
Comment by Christian Hesse (eworm) - Tuesday, 08 February 2022, 16:52 GMT
Mhh, good question... Will have to take a look at the details.
Comment by Christian Hesse (eworm) - Wednesday, 09 February 2022, 17:08 GMT
Is there any good reason left to have a split package systemd-sysvcompat? The package sysvinit is long gone...

Perhaps we should merge systemd-sysvcompat into systemd (and drop the message).
Comment by Christian Hesse (eworm) - Wednesday, 09 February 2022, 18:05 GMT
Decided to drop the message, but keep the split package. (Looks like people our there use Arch with different init system...)

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