On Fri, 10 Nov 2023 at 11:54, Matthew Vernon <matt...@debian.org> wrote: > > Luca Boccassi <bl...@debian.org> writes: > > > On Thu, 9 Nov 2023 at 22:54, Benjamin Barenblat <bba...@debian.org> wrote: > > >> What would you think about having coreutils Depend on libssl3? This > >> would make the libssl3 package essential, which is potentially > >> undesirable, but it also has the potential for serious user time savings > >> (on recent Intel CPUs, OpenSSL’s SHA-256 is over five times faster than > >> coreutils’ internal implementation). > > > > This sounds great. systemd also uses OpenSSL for various things, so > > libssl3 is pretty much a given on any bootable installation anyway > > already. > > I have no particular opinion on the proposal to make coreutils Depend > on libssl3; but there are plenty of bootable Debian systems without > systemd, so I'd like to gently push back on the idea that the only > bootable Debian systems are those using systemd as init. > > Thanks, > > Matthew > [commenting here, but I see at least one repetition of the claim in the > thread]
If we want to start nitpicking, then let's be exact: 0.61% of popcon. Whether that qualifies as "plenty" we'll leave as an exercise for the readers.