sysusers and tmpfiles

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>]

Hi,

[disclaimer: on work on systemd upstream, I'm not an active Debian
user anymore.]

Using systemd-sysusers and systemd-tmpfiles more widely was mentioned
a few times, along with a statement that an implementation for
non-systemd systems would need to be provided. Both those programs
work just fine without systemd not running as PID1. (systemd has unit
files to start them automatically during boot and at regular
intervals, so that part would need to be reimplemented appropriately
for a given init system if desired. The programs themselves don't care
at all how they are started.)

For example, upstream distributes rpm scriptlets [1] to invoke them
from an rpm transaction, i.e. possibly without any programs running in
the install root.

[1] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/src/core/macros.systemd.in#L123

Zbyszek