F22 System Wide Change: Systemd Package Split

[Lennart Poettering]

On Wed, 21.01.15 12:21, Jaroslav Reznik (jreznik at redhat.com) wrote:

> Systemd contains many binaries and depends on a fairly large number of 
> libraries. Packages which carry systemd units currently have to depend on 
> systemd (through %post, %preun, %postun macros used to install and uninstall 
> systemd units), which grows the dependency tree and increases the size of 
> minimal installs.
> 
> With this proposal systemd-units subpackages will be split out again:
> systemd-units

Really not a fan of this, but you are proposing here to reintroduce a
"-units" package again, and it will container directories and
binaries, but no actual units? Did I get that right?

Like Kay I think a "systemd-filesystem.rpm" that owns the dirs would
be a better idea... In particular as the systemctl invocations are all
suffixed with "|| : > /dev/null 2> /dev/null" (at least the ones done
via our macros), and hence should become NOPs if systemd itself is
missing...

Not enthusiastic,

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat