2015-02-17 22:25 GMT+01:00 Greg KH <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>: > On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 08:24:37PM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >> so i'm not going to "protest" - i'm going to try a different approach. >> i'd like you to look at this list of debian packages that are >> dependent on libsystemd0: >> http://lkcl.net/reports/removing_systemd_from_debian/list_of_libsystemd0_dependent_packages.txt >> >> it's an enormous list, comprising some 15% of the packages present in >> debian today. it includes apache2-dev, bluetooth / bluez, the gimp, >> php, *all* of the video players (xine, mplayer, vlc), *all* of the >> games and 3D packages that use SDL or pulseaudio (which is most of >> them), *all* of the major desktop environments including xfce4, lxde, >> Gnome and KDE/Plasma, cups-daemon, one of the anti-virus daemons, most >> of the music software packages and services, most of the VoIP clients, >> the android SDK, the eclipse IDE, OpenJDK 7, erlang, Apache >> Tomcat..... i'm just absolutely blown away by the extent of the >> dependencies. > > How exactly did you create such a dependancy list? On my system > (non-debian but fully systemd-only), I picked two random packages from > your list, gimp and cheese: > $ ldd /usr/bin/cheese | grep system > $ ldd /usr/bin/gimp | grep system > > Hm, no dependencies there. > > Perhaps you might wish to just file a Debian bug so that they fix their > build systems? Arch Linux doesn't have this kind of requirement, so > something must be odd here... >
There is no such dependency in Debian either [1]. Luke simply has no idea what he is talking about. It would be great if Luke did some basic research and educate himself and not spread such misinformation. [1] https://packages.debian.org/sid/gimp -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth? _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
