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On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 2:11 AM, Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 11/08/2016 10:44 PM, Daniel Campbell wrote: |
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>> On 11/08/2016 05:02 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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>>> On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 7:54 PM, Patrick McLean <chutzpah@g.o> wrote: |
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>>>> On Tue, 8 Nov 2016 17:41:02 -0600 |
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>>>> William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote: |
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>>>>> |
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>>>>> The plan, once the first release is out, is to rewrite this utility |
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>>>>> in a better language. I'm considering C, but if I am comfortable by |
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>>>>> that time in Go or Rust, I may use one of them. |
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>>>>> |
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>>>> |
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>>>> For a low-level utility that is likely going to be in the default |
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>>>> @system set, please use C. Adding dependencies on the go or rust |
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>>>> compilers for this is not very nice. |
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>>>> |
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>>> |
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>>> Assuming I'm looking at the right sources, the actual systemd |
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>>> implementation is only 2342 lines of C. Glancing at the includes, I'm |
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>>> not convinced it even requires systemd to run. |
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>>> |
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>>> You might want to take a look at either just creating a split ebuild, |
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>>> or tweaking it to work standalone if necessary. |
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>>> |
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>> Is that including any headers and/or libraries shared by the systemd |
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>> umbrella? |
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>> |
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> |
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> It has a huge list of includes for internal libraries, from acl-util.h |
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> to util.h: |
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> |
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> https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/src/tmpfiles/tmpfiles.c |
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Also, it is linked against libsystemd-shared.so, which is a 2.1 M blob |
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on my system. For comparison, libc-2.23.so is 1.7 M. |
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