systemd not in critpath

[Peter Robinson]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 15:43 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 7:32 AM, Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 10:13:48PM -0700, Garrett Holmstrom wrote:
>> >> Neither bodhi nor mash appears to consider systemd to be in the critical
>> >> path.  Why is this?  Is that the way we want it to be?
>> >>
>> > We should get that corrected.  notting has ben promising to get a script
>> > that integrates with mash and pushes the information into pkgdb where bodhi
>> > can then pull the information out.  Maybe he'll be able to give us an update
>> > on that or see if someone else familiar with mash can work on it.
>>
>> Its not the only one that's missing what should likely be classed as
>> critpath, clutter should likely be added too because gnome-shell's
>> dependency on it. I think the review of the crit path packages should
>> be part of the release process. There's likely things that are no
>> longer crit path and new things that are with each release.
>
> I'm not sure that's the intent of CRITPATH. I think the original
> definition was something on the order of "packages whose breakage can
> prevent the system from booting to a command prompt".
>
> If gnome-shell is broken, an admin can still get in on a virtual
> terminal or other window manager.

I believe it was for the primary desktop as well. Otherwise I doubt
that things like libimobiledevice would be on that list :)

Peter