On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 10:20:56PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote:

> Katolaz wrote on March 2, 2018:
> 

> 
> Most of those "alarming" files are just systemd units files, put there
> by daemons/packages/utilities who "also" support systemd in a way or
> another. So they are not alarming but just *totally* *harmless* if you
> don't have a running systemd as PID 1, since only systemd understands
> and can run them.  It would be *totally* *useless* (and utterly
> *stupid* IMHO) to fork, rebuild, and maintain a few more hundred
> packages only because they happen to provide a systemd unit file for
> those systems where systemd is used.

Package dependencies are of the form
    Install X if Y is installed
Too bad it doesn't handle
    Install X it Y and Z are installed.
I suspect, though, we don't wand to have to embed a SAT solver into the
package manager.  It's already complicated enough.

-- hendrik
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