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Re: Message about ntp when updating



On Mi, 11 ian 12, 10:26:48, Bob Proulx wrote:
> 
> For reasons that I haven't been following there has been a push to
> remove those shutdown links generally from everything.  I don't know
> why.  Perhaps someone else will comment on why.  Removing those links
> seems like it breaks going to single user mode directly from multiuser
> mode but I only go to single user mode from a reboot anyway so I guess
> that is okay.  I am sure the reasoning is that the reboot or halt will
> kill everything no matter what so might as well get to it as quickly
> as possible.  On a server machine this wouldn't ever be an issue but
> waiting for a laptop to shutdown could be annoying.

From lurking on debian-devel I can tell that your guess is right on :)
(the motive is to speed-up the shutdown).

Kind regards,
Andrei
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