On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 11:21:15AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > I don't think I understand what you mean.  What does "having systemd
> > installed" mean, if not that it's being used as the init system?  And if
> > it isn't used as the init system (presumably because the user chose no
> > to do that), why is it a good idea to change that?

> > In other words: what isn't handled properly?  What should happen, and
> > what does happen?

> Consider a system which has systemd installed, systemd-sysv *not*
> installed, and systemd used as PID 1 via init=/bin/systemd.  Since
> systemd-sysv is not already installed, "systemd-shim | systemd-sysv" will
> pull in systemd-shim instead, which will atttempt to supply services that
> conflict with systemd's.

systemd-shim is bus-activated-only.  The dbus name will already be claimed
by systemd itself on startup, so systemd-shim will be a no-op on such a
system.

Stop spreading FUD.

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