On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 07:56:56PM +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Right now, we have a problem with cyclic dependencies in core: systemd > requires libblkid and libuuid (systemd-udevd) and util-linux requires > libudev (findmnt, and soon uuidd [1]).
Do you run a huge SAP install? I don't run a huge SAP install. I'm not sure why anyone who doesn't run a huge SAP install cares about uuidd, but I understand your concern. > I don't like this situation and currently it is revoled by adding > systemd as optdepend to util-linux. This has the side effect that in a > chroot with only certain packages installed, one has to explicitly > install systemd to get findmnt working. Since I've run into this > situation and cyclic deps are bad, I propose the following: > > Split both util-linux and systemd into libutil-linux/util-linux and > libsystemd/systemd. Then we could have both util-linux and systemd > depend on both libsystemd and libutil-linux. Is this really necessary just to avoid minor problems in chroots? We used to have a libsystemd package, and subsequently ditched it. I don't see anything critical here. But hey, for some good news, there's already/still packages which depend on libsystemd.
