On Sun, Nov 30, 2025 at 08:54:53PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, [...] > Bottom line is that complex packages will often link to libraries the > user will never use, and that doesn't imply that their use is being > forced upon anyone. They might even do that to check that use is NOT > appropriate. Good description, excepting the slant :-) We might at least remind people that this approach comes with its own can of horses [1] Yes, in this case it was some lib with "systemd" in it. Yes, it could have been anyone, but it adds some irony to the situation. Cheers [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/967192/ -- tomás
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