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[Michael Biebl]

2014/1/16 Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net>:
> So I am pretty sure libsystemd-id128, libsystemd-login,
> libsystemd-journal should just end up in a single libsystemd.so together
> with the event loop, the bus, the asyncns stuff and more. All this
> functinality requires each other, and should nto pull in its own copy of
> src/shared/*.c each time.
>
> There are some exceptions to this though. For example, I am unsure about
> libsystemd-daemon: it's relatively easy to maintain this in its own lib,
> sicne so far it actually doesn't use any of the shared code, because
> its' embeddable. But then agaiun, given that this library evolves too,
> and given that distros generally don't like embedding anyway, we should
> probably just merge it into libsystemd.so too, in particular since the
> functions it provides are really low-level stuff. libsystemd-dhcp
> however really sounds like something that will always be consumer of services, never
> provider of services from this new libsystemd.so, and the set of
> programs making use of it will always be very small, so we can and
> should certainly keep it a seperate lib.
>
> I hope this makes some sense...

Would that mean you intend to break existing software which uses those
libraries, especially libsystemd-daemon.
Do you intend to at least keep the .pc files so a recompilation would
be sufficient?


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