Hi, On 03.01.2018 20:01, Steve Langasek wrote:
> What a nosystemd build profile proposes to do is to avoid linking against > *lib*systemd, which is an inert library dependency whose runtime impact > rounds to zero when systemd is not in use. I don't really care about a bit of dead weight except on very small embedded systems, of which I have precisely one left. The build profile is useful where upstream source can be configured in different ways, e.g. because someone wrote a daemon that works on BSD and can optionally activate "systemd mode" with additional integration code. There is still a large free software movement outside the Linux+systemd world, after all. My expectation at this point is "if it has a 'nosystemd' profile, then at least it has probably been tested to work without systemd." Keep in mind we just had a discussion last week if it was truly a bug if a package fails to work if systemd is not present. For that alone, the build profile is useful. Simon
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