F22 System Wide Change: Systemd Package Split

Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek zbyszek at in.waw.pl
Wed Jan 21 16:25:24 UTC 2015


On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 05:17:48PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> We have been there, we merged it back for many reasons, and do not
> want to go back. This all sounds like a really bad idea and has no
> support from my side.
Duly noted :) If you have pointers for specific problems to look out
for, I'd appreciate that.

> If you want to play such weird package installation games, the only
> sensible option I currently see, would be to create an empty,
> zero-file-content systemd-filesystem.rpm which only owns the
> directories for other stuff to put things into.
Anything which uses those directories needs to "install" those files
using systemd utilities (systemctl preset, udevadm --update, etc.).
So splitting out just the directories would not be useful.

Zbyszek


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