On 01/27/2013 07:35 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Wayne Blaszczyk wrote:
>>
>> You don't need glib to build a minimal systemd system. The minimal
>> requirements are dbus, kmod, util-linux, libcap, xz-utils, gperf,
>> intltool, and linux-headers.
>> What that boils down to are the following extra packages that I needed
>> to build a base LFS system:
>> attr
>> libcap
>> expat
>> XML-Parser
>> intltool
>> gperf
>> dbus
>> systemd
>
>> The following packages where not needed:
>> sysklogd
>> sysvinit
>> udev
>>
>> That comes down to 5 more packages to build a systemd system.
>> On top of this, I did not need to install the lfs-bootscripts. Can we
>> count that as a package?
>
> Sure.
>
>> That comes down to only 4 more packages. To be
>> fair, I had to replace the 23 scripts from lfs-bootscripts with a single
>> [email protected] file to get my network connectivity up and running.
>
> What about the 45 scripts in BLFS?  I know very few, if any, users need
> all of them, but they all would need to be addressed.
>

I have most of them and lot of packages come with shipped systemd units.

>> A nice feature I really like about systemd is in point 20, that is, all
>> sdtout/stderr of any system service is captured by the journal and each
>> log entry is related back to a process name and pid.
>
> If someone wants to create a version of LFS using systemd, I don't mind
> setting up a branch in svn to do that.
>
> I still feel that what happens inside of systemd is "magic" for the user
> who want to look at the boot process and see what is going on.  IMO, the
> scripts are much more transparent.
>
>     -- Bruce
>

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