Source: coreutils Version: 9.10 Severity: wishlist There is a discussion on the bug-gnulib list [1] about making libsystemd an optional dependency for the coreutils binary package. The dependency is there only for the readutmp-replacement functionality.
The list of relevant packages seems to include: who pinky users Arguable, these tools are not the most important part of a core system, and for a container environment they don't make sense. What do you think about moving all applications to a new package which is not as strongly required as the main 'coreutils' package? That is: Package: coreutils Depends: ... no libsystemd anywhere ... Recommends: coreutils-multiuser Package: coreutils-multiuser Depends: ... libsystemd ... Further analysis is required to confirm that 'who', 'users', and 'pinky' are the only relevant tools that needs libsystemd0 for readutmp. Further analysis is required to see which kind of packages assumes 'who', 'users', and 'pinky' are available by default. They would need to add 'coreutils-multiuser' to 'Build-Depends' and/or 'Depends'. Getting rid of tools that assumes a multi-user environment from the base 'coreutils' package seems like an overall long-term nice thing. Thoughts? /Simon [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2026-07/threads.html#00015
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature
