[systemd-devel] RFC: creating a set of systemd RPM macros across distributions ?

Lennart Poettering lennart at poettering.net
Mon Jul 4 10:33:53 PDT 2011


On Mon, 04.07.11 19:28, Kay Sievers (kay.sievers at vrfy.org) wrote:

> >> I don't really see how a subpackage gives us any advantage, and we
> >> should not recommend its use, I think.
> >
> > In that case, I suggest we keep the macro name in the proposal (because
> > we want other packages to requires "some" systemd package in their
> > specfile, but the content of the macro can change in distributions.
> 
> What's the point of having "some" sub-package at all? I guess, stuff
> should just depend on systemd.rpm instead of making it all needlessly
> complicated. Or should I package udev-rules.rpm next? :)

The fact that in fedora systemd is split into systemd and systemd-units
has mostly historical reasons and we probably should find a way to merge
them again.

Lennart

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