On 11/08/2016 05:02 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 7:54 PM, Patrick McLean <chutz...@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, 8 Nov 2016 17:41:02 -0600
>> William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> The plan, once the first release is out, is to rewrite this utility
>>> in a better language. I'm considering C, but if I am comfortable by
>>> that time in Go or Rust, I may use one of them.
>>>
>>
>> For a low-level utility that is likely going to be in the default
>> @system set, please use C. Adding dependencies on the go or rust
>> compilers for this is not very nice.
>>
> 
> Assuming I'm looking at the right sources, the actual systemd
> implementation is only 2342 lines of C.  Glancing at the includes, I'm
> not convinced it even requires systemd to run.
> 
> You might want to take a look at either just creating a split ebuild,
> or tweaking it to work standalone if necessary.
> 
Is that including any headers and/or libraries shared by the systemd
umbrella?

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