| 1 |
On 11/08/2016 05:02 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: |
| 2 |
> On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 7:54 PM, Patrick McLean <chutzpah@g.o> wrote: |
| 3 |
>> On Tue, 8 Nov 2016 17:41:02 -0600 |
| 4 |
>> William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote: |
| 5 |
>>> |
| 6 |
>>> The plan, once the first release is out, is to rewrite this utility |
| 7 |
>>> in a better language. I'm considering C, but if I am comfortable by |
| 8 |
>>> that time in Go or Rust, I may use one of them. |
| 9 |
>>> |
| 10 |
>> |
| 11 |
>> For a low-level utility that is likely going to be in the default |
| 12 |
>> @system set, please use C. Adding dependencies on the go or rust |
| 13 |
>> compilers for this is not very nice. |
| 14 |
>> |
| 15 |
> |
| 16 |
> Assuming I'm looking at the right sources, the actual systemd |
| 17 |
> implementation is only 2342 lines of C. Glancing at the includes, I'm |
| 18 |
> not convinced it even requires systemd to run. |
| 19 |
> |
| 20 |
> You might want to take a look at either just creating a split ebuild, |
| 21 |
> or tweaking it to work standalone if necessary. |
| 22 |
> |
| 23 |
Is that including any headers and/or libraries shared by the systemd |
| 24 |
umbrella? |
| 25 |
|
| 26 |
-- |
| 27 |
Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer |
| 28 |
OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net |
| 29 |
fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6 |
Archives