[systemd-devel] systemd footprint

Holger Winkelmann [TP] hw at travelping.com
Sun Dec 4 08:52:33 PST 2011


Hi Eduardo,

> Hi Holger,
> 
> I think we have to blame the uninformed complaints that Systemd is
> only for the desktop because of Dbus.

I was aware of this, but being a freedesktop project this not always
feels server alike.
> 
> Dbus can be built without X support. On Gimokod Linux the compressed
> package is at 240KB only.

Thanks for that, this look not so bad, but raises another question i have
in mind since reading about systems. Is a running dbus-deamon required to
startup a system with systems? 

> 
> $ ldd /usr/bin/dbus-daemon
>        linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fffcd3ff000)
>        libexpat.so.1 => /lib/libexpat.so.1 (0x00007f4317b7d000)
>        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f4317963000)
>        librt.so.1 => /lib/librt.so.1 (0x00007f431775c000)
>        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007f431740f000)
>        /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f4317d9e000)
> 
> See https://github.com/tongson/Gimokod/blob/f25a90aa8554149663ec768547987e44d5e4a1d7/core/dbus-core/PKGBUILD
> for the configure options used.

checked Gimokod, looks nice as we having archlinux running here as well.
> 
> Cheers.

Thanks, Holger

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Holger Winkelmann
Member of NGN Service Lab



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