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Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …



]] Ondřej Surý 

> Tollef, it is still unclear to me as well.

Ok, I'll try to be clearer then.

> You said:
> 
> > I'd like to align with upstream here (and in general): If upstream says
> > a component is optional, that's a configuration I'd in general want to
> > support.  If upstream says a component is not optional, well, then I'm
> > unlikely to go to the effort of making it optional.
> 
> and if I match this with the table at:
> http://people.debian.org/~stapelberg/docs/systemd-dependencies.html I get
> the result that you will _not_ compile systemd with:
> 
> libselinux.so
> libpam.so
> libwrap.so
> libaudit.so
> libkmod.so
> 
> because they are marked as optional in the table.
> 
> Is that true or not? I am quite lost, because wheezy systemd package has
> these dependencies:

We'll compile with all compile-time options enabled, as per what's
normal for Debian packages.  Any run-time optional components we'll keep
optional, but likely enabled by default.

-- 
Tollef Fog Heen
UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are


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