On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 2:11 AM, Zac Medico <zmed...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On 11/08/2016 10:44 PM, Daniel Campbell wrote: >> 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? >> > > It has a huge list of includes for internal libraries, from acl-util.h > to util.h: > > https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/src/tmpfiles/tmpfiles.c
Also, it is linked against libsystemd-shared.so, which is a 2.1 M blob on my system. For comparison, libc-2.23.so is 1.7 M.
