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

[Tollef Fog Heen]

]] 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.

I'd lean slightly the other way, have a systemd-core/systemd-minimal
that includes minimal things and then a systemd package that includes
the kitchen sink.

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