]] Martin Pitt > Michael Biebl [2015-03-29 4:51 +0200]: > > pitti was suggesting a systemd-extras package, but I'm not a huge fan of > > this idea either since it's unclear what would go into this package and > > what not and it complicates things if we have to move stuff around. > > IMHO, systemd should just ship what you need for booting a minimal > system, and shouldn't have big dependencies. We currently cripple some > features (networkd, due to dropping iptables-dev) or not ship them at > all (importd, journald-remote) as they pull in too many dependencies, > which isn't satisfying either. > > Hence the idea of systemd-extras -- everything which brings in large > dependencies and isn't needed for booting every system can go there. > systemd would Recommends: systemd-extras, but admins of embedded > machines etc. could remove/not install it. > > As for the particular "-extras" suffix I don't mind at all changing > that to something better, of course.
I'd lean slightly the other way, have a systemd-core/systemd-minimal that includes minimal things and then a systemd package that includes the kitchen sink. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are _______________________________________________ Pkg-systemd-maintainers mailing list Pkg-systemd-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-systemd-maintainers