[mythtv-users] Mythbuntu: So Long and Thanks for All the Fish

[Michael T. Dean]

On 11/07/2016 09:32 AM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
> Hoi Lindsay,
>
> Monday, November 7, 2016, 3:07:05 PM, you wrote:
>
>> On 7/11/2016 10:33 PM, James Linder wrote:
>>> Mythbuntu was ordinary, not magic, except they discovered a few magic things like delaying instantiation and boot of the cards until the pre-requisits have passed ie network start and mysql start before mythtv. I’ve struggled lots and lots to have mythtv start at boot time. Is there a documented list of what they did or is reverse engineering the only way?
>> This exactly what SystemD is intended for
> Only it makes things needlessly complicated and often not working.
>

By, for example, assuming that doing asynchronous startup of processes 
is fine for all processes and that no processes have any dependencies on 
others, therefore requiring a mechanism to explicitly say that a process 
has prerequisites and to allow administrators to explicitly say to delay 
startup of a process(es) until those prerequisites are started.

But assuming that processes must be started in a specific order, unless 
the administrator says otherwise, is so 1960's...

(In other words, IMHO, "exactly what SystemD is intended for" is kind of 
a funny way of putting it since SystemD is what caused the problem that 
SystemD is then solving.  :)

Mike