Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

[Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org>]

On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 02:22:24AM CEST, Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> said:
> Martin Read wrote:
> >On 02/09/14 19:55, Jimmy Johnson wrote:
> >>Erwan David wrote:
> >>
> >>>aptitude remove systemd -> downgrade almost everything to stable...
> >>>Ok no program present in stable should depend on systemd...
> >>>
> >>>that's a lot of bugs to open...
> >>
> >>
> >>Erwan, the whole of my Wheezy desktop system as I know it seems to be
> >>locked into 'libsystemd-login0' and imposable to remove, somebody
> >>correct me if I'm wrong..please!
> >
> >The libsystemd-login0 package is required because some major components
> >are built with support for systemd functionality, which they obtain by
> >linking against the libsystemd-login shared library. Programs which are
> >linked against a given shared library require that shared library to be
> >present in order to run.
> >
> >*Supporting* systemd functionality is, of course, not the same thing as
> >*requiring* that functionality to be present.
> >
> 
> Is not udev now part of systemd?  Kind of hard to run without udev.
> 
> Miles Fidelman

This behavious is part of the embrace...