[systemd-devel] systemd-analyze-197 broken

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 01:23:00AM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote:
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> Am 15.01.2013 01:16, schrieb Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek:
> >> I don't think it's as bad as you portray it, but I have an intern
> >> software engineer that I will be making systemd-analyze (the non-plot
> >> parts - the plot parts should be replaced by bootchart IMO) rewrite in
> >> C, so hopefully we can put some of this behind us soon enough.
> > I think that fixing a trivial packaging error (one line of missing
> > Depends:) with a rewrite from scratch is the wrong way to go.
> > The available man-hours would be much better spent improving
> > systemd-analyze to provide better diagnostics, nicer output, more
> > features, etc. Rewriting it in C serves little purpose: neither it is
> > a performance critical program, nor does it run in initrd. Nor
> > is it going to be easier to develop. To the contrary, as long as it is
> > written in Python, it is trivial to dynamically load the graphical
> > libraries only when necessary.  With C code this is possible too, but
> > requires _much_ more code.
> 
> that is all correct
> 
> but as long the COMMAND-LINE systemd-analyze with the simple output
> "716ms (kernel) + 1457ms (initramfs) + 32073ms (userspace) = 34247ms"
> hardly needs graphical libraries and growing deps there goes something
> wrong, the same for "systemd-analyze blame", both have no graphics
> involved
It doesn't. Graphical libraries are loaded only when used.

Of course systemd-analyze is _packaged_ as dependent on graphical
libraries, because the split to save a few megabytes on a server
installation is not worth the maintainer's (or admin's) time.

Zbyszek