Re: There should not be dependencies on systemd (Was: Cinnamon environment now available in testing)
On Sun, Sep 07, 2014 at 02:20:33AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> On Sun, 2014-09-07 at 00:05:59 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> > On Sep 06, Noel Torres <envite@rolamasao.org> wrote:
> > > It is just wrong to have dependencies on the init system.
> > > If you need dbus, you should Depend on dbus, and systemd should
> > > Provides dbus.
>
> > This is why most of these dependencies are on libpam-systemd, which does
> > not depend on systemd.
>
> That's incorrect:
No, it isn't. It was just poorly worded.
> $ apt-cache show libpam-systemd | egrep '^(Version|Depends):'
> Version: 214-1
> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.17), libcap2 (>= 2.10), libpam0g (>= 0.99.7.1),
> systemd (= 214-1), libpam-runtime (>= 1.0.1-6), dbus,
> systemd-sysv | systemd-shim (>= 6-4)
While libpam-systemd does Depend on the systemd binary package, that
package does not enforce systemd as the init system. The relevant
relationship there is the ORed “systemd-sysv | systemd-shim (>= 6-4)”.
Cheers,
--
James
GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <jamessan@debian.org>
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