Am 24.02.2014 20:18, schrieb Dave Reisner: > 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 think my sarcasm-detector is broken, there's a red light flashing that wasn't there before. >> 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. It's probably the right thing to do (better than some fishy optdepend). And since I am extremely fond of findmnt, it would make me incredibly happy. > But hey, for some good news, there's already/still packages which depend > on libsystemd. Great stuff!
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