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

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Michael,

Monday, November 7, 2016, 4:05:16 PM, you wrote:

> 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
> _______________________________________________

It just needs another 10 years to mature. ;-)

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