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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: The Tragedy Of systemd
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 07:57:10 -0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 09 Oct 2024 07:53:18 +0200, Marc Haber wrote:

> And still those server people complain that systemd feels more like its
> geared for desktop machines. Noone cares how long it takes to boot a
> server, and many server jockeys would love the possibility to turn off
> the parallelism of systemd when booting (for reproducibility,
> sacrificing speed).

I can’t see any option for doing that globally, but you could use drop-in 
config files to temorarily force ordering on particular services that 
might be giving you trouble, so you can properly debug their dependencies. 
For example, I soon learned the difference between 
“Requires=mysql.service” and “After=mysql.service”, and why, in my case, I 
needed both ...