From https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/NetworkTarget/. I changed the order in the page, but didn't change the text too much. Now the discussion of the different targets is at the top, and they are ordered like during boot (network-pre.target first, then network.target, and network-online.target last). The parts about LSB and $network are pushed down a bit. I think it is still useful to have them, but not as the main entry point into the discussion. I tried to clean up the grammar and wording a bit. One meanigful change is that we now don't say that network-online.target means interfaces are up and IP addresses have been assigned. In other places we were saying that the actual implementation is provided by NetworkManager-wait-online.service, so the actual meaning is not under our control. The text is changed to say "usually". The last paragraph is new, I think it's good to say that "dnf-makecache.service" is fine to use "network-online.target".
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