From 645d1b9eb71b661d6c6b21e51ab0189495b974a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek Date: Feb 16 2017 18:10:10 +0000 Subject: Update description At least the part about snapshotting was obsolete. Let's use the text from https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/ with some slight modifications. --- diff --git a/systemd.spec b/systemd.spec index 5d2555d..47d413b 100644 --- a/systemd.spec +++ b/systemd.spec @@ -190,13 +190,19 @@ Conflicts: fedora-release < 23-0.12 %endif %description -systemd is a system and service manager for Linux, compatible with -SysV and LSB init scripts. systemd provides aggressive parallelization +systemd is a system and service manager that runs as PID 1 and starts +the rest of the system. It provides aggressive parallelization capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services, offers on-demand starting of daemons, keeps track of processes using -Linux cgroups, supports snapshotting and restoring of the system -state, maintains mount and automount points and implements an -elaborate transactional dependency-based service control logic. +Linux control groups, maintains mount and automount points, and +implements an elaborate transactional dependency-based service control +logic. systemd supports SysV and LSB init scripts and works as a +replacement for sysvinit. Other parts of this package are a logging daemon, +utilities to control basic system configuration like the hostname, +date, locale, maintain a list of logged-in users and running +containers and virtual machines, system accounts, runtime directories +and settings, and daemons to manage simple network configuration, +network time synchronization, log forwarding, and name resolution. %package libs Summary: systemd libraries