On Wed, 2 Jan 2019, Jérémy Rosen wrote:
>
> >> What's the benefit of not having After= for those services?
> > I guess they can start and do their initialization in parallel with
> > the service they require.
> In that case, what is the benefit or Requires vs Wants ?
>
> I might be missing something about what Requires does (shutdown ?) but at that
> point, Wants would be a better dependency, no ?
If a unit Requires=other.service, any stop or restart job for
other.service is propagated back to this unit (the latter as try-restart).
This does not occur with Wants=.
In _most_ cases this back-propagation isn't needed, which is why Wants= is
generally preferred.
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