Bug#742802: Bug#771523: systemd: Add build dependency for libmicrohttpd-dev

[Martin Pitt]

Michael Biebl [2015-03-29  4:51 +0200]:
> pitti was suggesting a systemd-extras package, but I'm not a huge fan of
> this idea either since it's unclear what would go into this package and
> what not and it complicates things if we have to move stuff around.

IMHO, systemd should just ship what you need for booting a minimal
system, and shouldn't have big dependencies. We currently cripple some
features (networkd, due to dropping iptables-dev) or not ship them at
all (importd, journald-remote) as they pull in too many dependencies,
which isn't satisfying either.

Hence the idea of systemd-extras -- everything which brings in large
dependencies and isn't needed for booting every system can go there.
systemd would Recommends: systemd-extras, but admins of embedded
machines etc. could remove/not install it.

As for the particular "-extras" suffix I don't mind at all changing
that to something better, of course.

Martin
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Martin Pitt                        | http://www.piware.de
Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com)  | Debian Developer  (www.debian.org)
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