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Bug 464860 - sys-apps/systemd-200-r1 announces to remove /bin/systemd - why not /sbin/systemd ?
Summary: sys-apps/systemd-200-r1 announces to remove /bin/systemd - why not /sbin/syst...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo systemd Team
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Reported: 2013-04-06 13:37 UTC by Ulenrich
Modified: 2013-04-09 13:00 UTC (History)
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Description Ulenrich 2013-04-06 13:37:09 UTC
> You are using a compatibility symlink to run systemd. The symlink
> will be removed in near future. Please update your bootloader
> to use:
>       init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd

There is an almost canonical /sbin/init for years. 
The /bin/systemd symlink was somehow weird in the first place 
therefore, because systemd is not supposed to be called directly.

I will create myself a symlink
ln -s /usr/lib/systemd/systemd /sbin/systemd

Is this a bad habit? Or would this be convenient for all 
users? Because I don't expect all users to get it right 
using this long path init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd 
at CMDLINE especially if they edit the grub at boot time.
:(



Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Michał Górny archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2013-04-08 13:28:33 UTC
It's a very bad one since it's inventing something completely opposite to the direction upstream goes.

While at it, I was thinking of making /sbin/init a symlink with eselect module to switch it. That would involve renaming sysvinit binary, though.