On 08/24/2010 03:53 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Tue, 24.08.10 14:59, Matthew Miller (mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > >> The service command has a syntax like this: >> >> service servicename action >> >> where as systemctl has a syntax like this: >> >> systemctl action servicename.service >> >> This is inconvienient for the common case where more than one action is >> performed in sequence on the same service, since with the first ordering, >> one just hits the up arrow, ctrl-w, and then types the new action (with >> tab-completion). >> >> With the systemctl order, one must first skip back over the first word, >> which due to the awesome emacsness of bash keybindings is more of a pain. >> >> I'm not saying that systemctl's syntax needs to be changed. I am saying, >> however, that it's important to get the service command working with >> systemctl so that people can use that instead. > > Interesting definition of "important". FWIW, Lennart, I agree with him here. The smoother the transition we can provide for existing admins, the better, and this is an obvious place where we can do that. ~spot -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel