On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 09:46:59AM -0500, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > That said, I find that your characterization of someone not wanting > systemd installed on their system as "disturbed" to itself be somewhat > disturbing. You cannot possibly know what grounds someone might have > for not wanting systemd, and to automatically and universally > characterize that as "disturbed" implies a value judgment that runs > counter both to the freeness and universailty that Debian as a project > espouses. You don't need a separate build profile in order to not install systemd. That is already supported. What a nosystemd build profile proposes to do is to avoid linking against *lib*systemd, which is an inert library dependency whose runtime impact rounds to zero when systemd is not in use. Treating libsystemd specially, out of all the mostly-unused libraries that get linked in the archive, is not sensible. Catering to fanatics who insist on treating it specially, without technical merit, has no bearing on the freeness or universality of Debian. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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