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> It certainly appears similarly, but the dependency and ordering primitives are interpreted much more loosely like tags than they are like absolute requirement
by simoncion 11y ago
> It certainly appears similarly, but the dependency and ordering primitives are interpreted much more loosely like tags than they are like absolute requirements.
Ah. That would be the "subtlety" that I was missing. Thanks! :)
As an aside: how terrible it is to provide an interface that makes it look it gives you ordering guarantees when -in actuality- it gives you no such thing! :(
- vezzy-fnord 11y agoWell, in fairness, the developers are honest about it. But they perhaps do not make it as obvious they should, and a lot of people are fooled (I'd cynically argue to the benefit of the systemd developers).
- pc2g4d 11y agoSo how does this work? Wouldn't ntpd sometimes start before networking, for example? Why is this not a bigger issue?