Hi Paul, Paul Eggert wrote: > > There's no static checking or complaining involved anywhere that I know of. > > Then I'm lost. I thought a major goal of this effort was to pacify > Debian installation procedures for coreutils on limited installations > that don't have libsystemd installed.
Sort of. I explained the goal of Luca's readutmp patch in this mail: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2026-07/msg00065.html As you and I have agreed that this effort is based on an incorrect understanding of the coreutils package and its dependencies (and Pàdraig seems to agree [1]), we can consider this patch (now '[PATCH v2 5/5] readutmp: load libsystemd with dlopen instead of linking' in his latest patch set) as rejected. What to do instead, in my opinion, is detailed in https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2026-07/msg00098.html I will submit two proposed meta-information files to coreutils: - A DEPENDENCIES file, that states the dependencies (both for the user who runs './configure && make && make install', as well as for the distros). - A PACKAGING file, that gives suggestions to distros, especially regarding how to create minimal environments without libsystemd. Bruno [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2026-07/msg00037.html
