Kevin Fenzi writes:
On Sat, 05 Jul 2014 19:30:06 -0400
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam(a)courier-mta.com> wrote:
> R. G. Newbury writes:
>
> >>
> >> That at least works up to the day systemd decides
> >> no one needs rc.local and they drop support for
> >> it (a day that is sure to come :-).
> >
> > Direct support for rc.local has already been "deprecated".
> > Somewhere I read something from Lennart and it was clear that he
> > has an almost religious hatred for doing things 'the old way', so
> > much so that rc.local is not 'desired'.
>
> I got the same impression. If it worked, reliably, for decades, it's
> not desired any more.
I'd love a cite if you can find one... I don't know of any reason it
would ever be removed. It doesn't run or do anything if you don't have
an rc.local file.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=978849#c6