Neal Gompa wrote:
Note that dlopen() doesn't fix the problem of the giant libsystemd in the first place. It just obfuscates the true dependency graph of libsystemd.
At least it (hopefully) means liblzma will not be opened if you do not use an API that needs liblzma. But it makes it even harder to tell whether liblzma will end up being loaded or not.
Long ago (I think like ~10 years ago), libsystemd was actually several separate smaller libraries. Perhaps we could consider asking upstream to switch back to that model?
+1
Kevin Kofler