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

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hello Danny,

ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Hi Danny,
>
> The discussion drifted a bit…  :-)
>
> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:
>
>> Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> skribis:
>
> [...]
>
>>> 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’.

Any update on this?

Maxim