Package: apt Version: 1.8.2 Severity: normal I observed a linkage dependency on libsystemd. This was unexpected for me since I wouldn't expect a package manager depend on it. A package manager should be as lean as possible.
Having reviewed the code, the only function using libsystemd is used to talk on dbus to inhibit system shutdown. Something which will work for systemd only. Would it make sense to use dlopen() to dynamically load libsystemd when needed and avoid the hard dependency on libsystemd? If systemd is installed, libsystemd will be available anyways. -- Package-specific info: -- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) -- -- (/etc/apt/preferences.d/avoid-systemd present, but not submitted) -- -- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) -- -- (/etc/apt/sources.list.d/devuan.list present, but not submitted) -- -- System Information: Debian Release: 10.0 Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages apt depends on: ii adduser 3.118 ii debian-archive-keyring 2019.1 ii gpgv 2.2.12-1+deb10u1 ii libapt-pkg5.0 1.8.2 ii libc6 2.28-10 ii libgcc1 1:8.3.0-6 ii libgnutls30 3.6.7-4 ii libseccomp2 2.3.3-4 ii libstdc++6 8.3.0-6 Versions of packages apt recommends: ii ca-certificates 20190110 Versions of packages apt suggests: pn apt-doc <none> ii aptitude 0.8.11-7 ii dpkg-dev 1.19.7 ii gnupg 2.2.12-1+deb10u1 ii powermgmt-base 1.34 ii synaptic 0.84.6 -- no debconf information -- gnuPG keyid: 8C2BAF51 fingerprint: 28EE 8438 E688 D992 3661 C753 90B3 BAAA 8C2B AF51
