Re: There should not be dependencies on systemd

[Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>]

Noel Torres <envite@rolamasao.org> writes:
> If you need dbus, you should Depend on dbus, and systemd should Provides dbus. 
> Then, if Ann programs her Own Dbus Implementation she can package it as aodi 
> (Ann's Own Dbus Implementation) and have aodi Provides dbus. Same for logind 
> (systemd Provides logind and random-package Depends logind), and any other 
> piece of the big systemd ecosystem.
>
> Any dependence on systemd or any other init system should be considered an RC 
> bug (except only packages designed to manage the init system, like an 
> imaginary systemd-tweaking-tool).

That doesn't change anything in practice as long as systemd would be the
only package providing logind. So until someone writes an alternative
implementation, it would just be useless work.

So feel free to raise this once alternative implementations exist.

Ansgar