F22 System Wide Change: Systemd Package Split

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 03:06:32AM +0000, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote:
> On Fri Jan 23 2015 at 9:43:02 AM Lennart Poettering <mzerqung at 0pointer.de>
> wrote:
> 
> > 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...
> >
> > systemd-filesystem sounds like a good idea. As for this proposal -- while
> it might reduce the size of the buildroot used to build packages depending
> on systemd-related macros, what would the effect be on minimal installs --
> don't they include systemd anyway?
No, they don't. systemd has to be specified in BR and R.

Zbyszek