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Re: libsystemd [was: Re: Is missing SysV-init support a bug?]



On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 10:33:36AM +0300, Dmitry Bogatov wrote:
> > > I hugely support idea of dynamically loading libsystemd.
> >
> > Please don't, no.  While I do think packages should keep sysvinit
> > support as long as it continues to work and doesn't make other paths
> > worse, I don't think it makes sense to omit linking to libsystemd, or to
> > dlopen it at runtime.
> 
> Extra useless dependency. This is case when I miss Gentoo's use-flags.
> 
> We already have emacs24, which builds with support of everything,
> including tiff and dbus. If I do not like it, I have two option -- use
> emacs-nox (thanks to maintainer, who built it) or rebuild package
> locally.
> 
> If I don't like libsystemd dependency, I am in much worse position,
> since I have to rebuild really a lot of packages. Yes, we have
> `angband.pl' repository, but this not systematic solution.
You could switch to Devuan, they build packages without this useless
dependency.

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WBR, wRAR

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