They may be old (or rather compatible implementations of old commands), but
they certainly are not going away. Apart from privilege escalation through
polkit, they are mostly equivalent.
<refsect1>
<title>Notes</title>
- <para>These are legacy commands available for compatibility
- only.</para>
+ <para>These commands are implemented in a way that preserves compatiblity with
+ the original SysV commands.
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ verbs <command>halt</command>, <command>poweroff</command>,
+ <command>reboot</command> provide the same functionality with some additional
+ features.</para>
</refsect1>
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