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Subject: [bug#30464] [PATCH 1/2] services: Add console-agetty-service.
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To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
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Hi Danny,

The discussion drifted a bit=E2=80=A6  :-)

ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) 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 =E2=80=98dependencies=E2=80=99 field to <agetty-config=
uration>?  It=E2=80=99d
> 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 =E2=80=98dependencies=E2=80=99 hack looks simple enough and =
would solve
this immediate need, I think.

Ludo=E2=80=99.