[arch-general] Telinit?

[David Rosenstrauch]

On 2020-08-16 3:20 pm, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote:
> On 8/16/20 2:59 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
>> On 2020-08-15 2:53 pm, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
>>> Anyone know what happened to the "telinit" shortcut?  It used to be
>>> included in systemd-sysvcompat
>>> (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd#systemd-sysvcompat) but
>>> seems like it recently got removed.  Was it removed upstream?  (And 
>>> if
>>> so, anyone know why?)
>> 
>> I looked into this a bit more, and it looks like this was not an
>> upstream change.  Rather, it was removed in Arch in this commit:
>> https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/commit/9ca7c019fe8f59505cf1f6dc4163e146f3e777a7#diff-8d0411b338c83cd8cd8ad9d9db127101
>> 
>> 
>> @eworm:   Any explanation as to why this was removed?
> 
> Reread the Arch commit. It wasn't removed.
> 
> Arch used to move the symlink from the "systemd" package to the
> "systemd-sysvcompat" package, and no longer does so.

Not sure I understand.  Shouldn't it still?  (And wouldn't it be 
deviating from upstream if it didn't?)

Thanks,

DR