On Wed, 12 Sep 2012, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Greg KH wrote:
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 03:56:33PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Greg KH wrote:
What dependencies? Run time? Build time? And why are dependencies
bad? Do you have no ram in your system for them?
The configure scripts require packages that are not in LFS.
Like what? Can't you add them?
intltool, glib, gperf, gobject-introspection.
intl needs XML::Parser. glib needs libffi and python and can use pcre, attr,
d-bus, gamin, and gtk-doc. gobject-introspection also needs glib and can use
cairo and gtk-doc. cairo needs libpng, glib, and pixman and can use
fontconfig, gtk+, xorg libraries (and on and on).
Pkg X "can use" pkg Y (where Y is something that one might or might
not want to install) is not an argument against requiring pkg X.
I'm one who thinks (on the basis of experience with home-rolled
systems), that systemd really is a smarter, faster, more
comprehensible, and more user-manageable way to get a Linux system
up and running than sysvinit plus a big mess of shell scripts.
However, I take your point about some of the systemd dependencies,
direct and indirect (even though systemd's configure script has a
fair number of useful --disable-whatever options).
Why intltool, for instance? Systemd has a --disable-nls option in
its configure script. But this is in fact just automake fraud;
there's really no way to disable nls (and everything it brings in,
including intltool), so far as I can tell.
--
Allin Cottrell
Department of Economics
Wake Forest University
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