[systemd-devel] [PATCH 05/10] rules: skip 99-systemd.rules when not running systemd as init

[Tollef Fog Heen]

]] Lennart Poettering 

> On Wed, 16.07.14 12:09, Jon Severinsson (jon at severinsson.net) wrote:
> 
> > From: Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen at err.no>
> 
> If you really want to support systems without systemd installed, then I'd
> recommend placing this rules file in the systemd pacakge, so that it is
> gone if you uninstall systemd.

It'd then go to the systemd-sysv package, since the systemd package is
used by, eg systemd-shim (which enables logind to function with systemd
<= 204).  (systemd-sysv → systemd is pid1, systemd → no such
guarantees.)

> That said, nothing of what the file does is in any way something that
> could break things on non-systemd systems, hence the whole excercise
> sounds pointless...

IIRC it broke something at some point.  I could dig up the bug if it's
interesting, but it might well have been fixed in the meantime.

-- 
Tollef Fog Heen
UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are