[bug#30464] [PATCH 0/2] Add console-agetty-service.

[zimoun]

Hi,

This patch #30464 series [1] had been submitted on Feb 2018 and after a
drifting discussion, the last message is:


On Thu, 08 Oct 2020 at 14:21, Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> wrote:

>> The discussion drifted a bit…  :-)
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>>> 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 ‘dependencies’ field to <agetty-configuration>?  It’d
>>> 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 ‘dependencies’ hack looks simple enough and would solve
>> this immediate need, I think.
>
> Any update on this?

Therefore, any update on this?


Cheers,
simon

1: <http://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/30464>