Daenyth Blank wrote:

On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 12:36, Aaron Griffin wrote:

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I have a feeling this was done to mirror the rc.multi script (which is what starts the DAEMONS array). But, you're right. If I boot into single user mode (runlevel 1) and then start daemons manually, rc.shutdown should should them down cleanly.

It seems fine to me to remove this check. Any nay sayers?

I can't think of any reason not to remove it.

Me neither. (Random fact: That condition check was last modified 7 years and 6 months ago. :)

On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Damjan Georgievski wrote:

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Can we actually do without this check for runlevels? It is additionally not compatible with Upstart, I understand Upstart is not supported in Arch in any way, but still more flexible rc.xxx scripts in Arch would be a good thing afterall.

BTW, how about splitting rc.sysinit, rc.multi and rc.shutdown in separate scriptlets?

I don't propose that the installed scripts should be split, but the source files could be kept split and a simple Makefile could "compile" them in the form used today?

(this would allow for easier reusing them in alternative init systems)

I removed the if and pushed it to master. Regardin the reusing and things like that - not my bag. It seems like it'd just overcomplicate things for no gain to us (we only ship one init system).