[systemd-devel] setting up to allow separate udev and systemd builds

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 19.06.12 18:44, Michael Olbrich (m.olbrich at pengutronix.de) wrote:

> > >  Yes, we could, but what about exherbo, funtoo, linux from scratch and
> > >  the other source based distros that may be out there?
> > 
> > I fail to see what this has to do with source-based distros. They can
> > just build systemd as normal and drop everything they don't
> > want. Where's the difference to an RPM-based distro there? Whether the
> > build happens locally or on some build server should have no influence
> > on the build system.
> 
> This is not about the files from systemd. It's about the dependencies.
> Every user of a source based distro, that only wants systemd now has to
> first install dbus then udev, and then remove dbus again.

I think the way to get rid of this dep is by moving D-Bus into the
kernel. WHich is something folks at Collabora are working on and which
we fully support.

Lennart

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