On Tuesday 07 January 2014 05:19:35 Karel Zak wrote: > On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 10:55:35AM +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote: > > >> We already have such a cyclic dependency, since udevd depends on > > >> libblkid+libuuid, and findmnt (from util-linux) depends on libudev. > > >> > > > .. and nobody complains, good point :-) Thanks! > > > > > > Karel > > > > Actually, now that I know you care about these things, I am complaining. > > > :-))) > : > > It has caused me (minor) trouble once already. > > It's possible (first time) to compile util-linux without libudev, > compile systemd/udevd and then again recompile util-linux with > libudev. > > IMHO libudev is very useful for findmnt and lsblk to get info about > devices. > > Note that uuidd is absolutely unnecessary if you don't have huge SAP > installation (-- it means unnecessary for 99% of the all Linux users). on a semi-related matter, it'd be nice if we could easily build util-linux such that we only get the libraries. the plethora of configure flags that control utils is a nightmare to manage, and i'm not sure there's a flag for every utility (i haven't checked myself, so i could easily be wrong). if that were in play, the circular loop would be easy to address -- build util-linux once just for its libs, then udev/systemd, then util-linux again. -mike
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