[Pkg-erlang-devel] Bug#709754: Erlang runtime implicitly starts a epmd daemon

[Sergei Golovan]

Hi Philipp,

On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 1:31 AM, Philipp Huebner <debalance at debian.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> isn't this problem resolved, now that the epmd daemon is started
> explicitly trough systemd?
>
> erlang-base installs /lib/systemd/system/epmd.{service,socket}
> so epmd.service can be controlled through systemd like any other daemon.

The epmd daemon is still masked by default, so I'll not close this bug
yet. I'm thinking about unmasking it but I'm afraid it'll confuse
users who don't need and never use any distributed Erlang application.

Cheers!
-- 
Sergei Golovan