On Wednesday, 6 May 2020 8:28:09 AM AEST Ansgar wrote: > The last upload adds `Provides: systemd`, but `systemctl` obviously > doesn't provide the same (or similar) functionality as the `systemd` > package.
It does provide similar functionality under certain circumstances such as
inside application containers where "systemd" (or init system) is not
present.
The purpose of "systemctl" package is to provide alternative "systemctl"
utility to manage systemd services without systemd. Of course is it not a
complete implementation but IMHO quite sufficient to be practically useful
and warrant for "Provides: systemd".
The unfortunate problem why I had to introduce "Provides: systemd" is
discussed in #959174.
> As a random example, systemd-tmpfiles and other utilities are not
> provided by `systemctl`.
It would be ridiculous to re-implement all broad systemd functionality.
However service management functionality is mature enough and that's a
primary feature of systemd as well.
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