6 Jan
2015
6 Jan
'15
11:57 p.m.
On Tue, 6 Jan 2015 21:50:39 +0100, Arve Barsnes wrote:
On 6 January 2015 at 20:04, Joel Roth
<joelz(a)pobox.com> wrote:
Vice versa e.g. Thunar indirectly depends on systemd, since Thunar
depends on udev and udev and systemd are merged by upstream. In the
last years we got some grotesque dependency chains. Getting rid of those
dependency chains at least needs much work and sometimes might be
impossible. Assumed Torvalds wouldn't reject kernel patches from at
least one coder, we maybe already would have a serious issue. A good
bridge back to systemd and co-option of init and dbus. Systemd depends
on dbus and the time will come, when dbus becomes part of the kernel.
$ pacman -Qi systemd | grep Depends\ On
Depends On : acl bash dbus glib2 kbd kmod hwids libcap
libgcrypt libsystemd libidn lz4 pam libseccomp util-linux xz
Since systemd is not portable to non-Linux systems Debian dropped the
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD port. Portability between Linux and other *nix
soon or later will become harder and harder. Systemd and a few other
new ideas aren't bad per se, but some of those new ideas added serious,
dangerous drawbacks to Linux.
There are about a dozen packages that depend on
systemd,
such as dbus, pulse-audio, avahi-daemon, udisk. Once these
bottom-level packages are freed, the whole software stack is
liberated, with the exception of the Gnome desktop environment.
None of the packages you mention depend on systemd as it is, so maybe
you just need to move to a "liberated" distro.