On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 09:36:30AM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > Fellow devs, > > I've started working on bringing systemd to Gentoo [1] lately, > and I think it is important to raise the aspect of systemd unit > inclusion in various packages in gx86 ASAP. > > The number of packages coming with systemd units is growing rapidly > recently, and that especially applies to freedesktop packages. > One side effect of that is that these packages treat systemd > as an automagic dependency, installing systemd units whenever its > pkgconfig file is installed. I already opened two bugs on that [2,3] > but there would be much more...
I think the better way to handle this will be to patch the build systems to not make this an automagic dependency and send those patches upstream. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/automagic.xml I'm not a member of qa, but I agree with this position on automagic dependencies. William
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