systemd dependencies

[Orion Poplawski]

On 08/26/2014 04:59 AM, Vít Ondruch wrote:
> Dne 26.8.2014 11:06, Michal Sekletar napsal(a):
>> On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 09:32:26AM +0200, Vít Ondruch wrote:
>>> Hi,
>> Hi Vít,
>>
>>> Recently I have noticed that systemd package dependency is creeping into
>>> some packages where it is not necessary. subversion [1] or rsync [2] are
>>> good examples. Please consider moving daemon parts into independent
>>> subpackages. When I install rsync/subversion, I am typically interested
>>> just in client side.
>> At some point in time (F16 IIRC) we had systemd-units package which contained
>> /etc/rpm/macros.systemd file. Packagers which followed our guidelines used for
>> example %{unitdir} macro in %files. Hence they added systemd-units to
>> BuildRequires.
>>
>> These days systemd-units no longer exists, macro file moved to systemd rpm and
>> systemd-units is a provided by systemd rpm.
>
> Thank you for insightful explanation.
>
> Nevertheless, if you are using some macro, it is just build time
> dependency. I believe that the issue might be due to %{unitdir} folder
> ownership. And I see two solutions:
>
> 1) Packages which ships unit files should consider to put them into sub
> package called either -daemon or -server. And this applies especially to
> packages such as man (forgot to mention this one previously), rsync or
> subversion. I don't typically use their server features or con jobs or
> whatever.

Looks like rsync now has a -daemon sub-package, as you requested, and which I 
think is a good thing.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1123813

Wish it went with a -server name, as that seems much more common, especially 
for admin configurable services.  Really wish we had more standardized names.

[root at vmrawhide ~]# yum list \*-server | wc -l
137
[root at vmrawhide ~]# yum list \*-daemon | wc -l
30


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