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Re: Who's locking down the code?



golinux wrote:
> Would appreciate comments on this observation:
> 
> "Look at the source code (while you're at it, note who are the
> upstream maintainers of util-linux). Even they (so far) allow
> compilation without systemd. It is Debian who are introducing systemd
> dependencies even where it is actually optional in the upstream
> source."
> 
> 
> If upstream is allowing choice, why is Debian cutting it off? Maybe
> I'm missing something . . .

The fact that an executable is linked against a systemd library doesn't
automatically mean you have to run systemd as PID1.

This is especially true for the sd-daemon and sd-journal libraries in
this case.

Laurent Bigonville

> 
> 
> golinux
> 


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