[bug#30464] [PATCH 1/2] services: Add console-agetty-service.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Danny,

The discussion drifted a bit…  :-)

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:

> Danny Milosavljevic <address@hidden> skribis:

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>> It doesn't make sense to have agetty itself depend on syslogd because
>> agetty can be (and usually is) used for modems etc which have nothing
>> to do with the local console.
>
> Alright.
>
> How about adding a ‘dependencies’ field to <agetty-configuration>?  It’d
> default to the empty list, and could be set to '(syslogd) in this case.
>
> Does that sound too obscure to you, or would it be OK?

Thoughts?  The ‘dependencies’ hack looks simple enough and would solve
this immediate need, I think.

Ludo’.