From: psychonaut@nothingisreal.com   
      
   Greetings.   
      
   Occasionally when I boot my machine, the system pauses for a minute or   
   two with the message, "A start job is running for Purge old kernels".   
      
   If I understand correctly, purging old kernels simply means uninstalling   
   them.  If this is the case, why is this something that boot has to block   
   for?  I mean, once the system is up an running, I can always use zypper   
   or rpm to manually remove old kernels.  So it's obviously something that   
   *can* be done without interfering with my use of the machine.  I get why   
   the bootup script might want to clean up old kernels every once in a   
   while, but why can't it just launch a process that does this   
   unobtrusively in the background?   
      
   Regards,   
   Tristan   
      
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