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On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 09:36:30AM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> Fellow devs, |
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> I've started working on bringing systemd to Gentoo [1] lately, |
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> and I think it is important to raise the aspect of systemd unit |
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> inclusion in various packages in gx86 ASAP. |
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> The number of packages coming with systemd units is growing rapidly |
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> recently, and that especially applies to freedesktop packages. |
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> One side effect of that is that these packages treat systemd |
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> as an automagic dependency, installing systemd units whenever its |
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> pkgconfig file is installed. I already opened two bugs on that [2,3] |
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> but there would be much more... |
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I think the better way to handle this will be to patch the build systems |
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to not make this an automagic dependency and send those patches |
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upstream. |
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/automagic.xml |
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I'm not a member of qa, but I agree with this position on automagic |
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dependencies. |
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William |
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