Rob Owens writes: > I submitted a general bug regarding packages which require changing > your init system to systemd. I pointed out that this runs counter to > Debian's goals of supporting multiple init systems.
No, it doesn't. Any individual package can depend on any other package. Unfortunately, many upstreams are writing their code in such a way as to require that when their software is packaged for Debian the resulting package must depend on systemd features. The only solutions for this are to either convince upstream authors to change their ways or to make other init systems able to emulate systemd to the extent necessary. If you can find packages that gratuitously depend on systemd file specific bugs against those packages. When the systemd dependency is deeply embedded in the upstream source, though, there is nothing the package maintainer can do about it. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87mw9tdkbr....@thumper.dhh.gt.org
