On 29 October 2014 13:40, Neil McGovern <[email protected]> wrote:
>> * if we go the MTA/sh route, then we define lowest common denominator
>> interface of an init system and only init systems providing that
>> (possibly with a systemd-shim) can be init systems in the archive and
>> also applications can only depend on presence of these particular
>> interfaces;
>
> I think there's possibly a slight logic gap here, and that's around
> "applications can only depend on presence of these particular interfaces".
>
> As far as I'm aware, we don't actually say that anywhere. Applications can
> only /rely/ on those interfaces, but it's certainly possible for an
> application to have a Depends: on a particular shell.
Shell is relatively harmless, imagine if, for example, LibreOffice
suddenly had a dependency on Exim (due to some special email sending
options used in the mail merge feature) and so installing LibreOffice
would also change your MTA.
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