Bug#946456: systemd: Provide systemd-sysusers as an independent package

[Felipe Sateler]

On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 1:39 PM Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:

> Am 28.01.20 um 17:27 schrieb Ansgar:
> > On Tue, 2020-01-28 at 16:51 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> >> Am 28.01.20 um 14:59 schrieb Ansgar:
> >>> I tried linking systemd-{sysusers,tmpfiles} statically against
> >>> systemd's private library earlier this month.  It increases the
> >>> binaries size by ~100 kB (compared to Installed-Size: 14.2 MB of
> >>> systemd that is just one percent).
> >>
> >> Is that 100K per binary?
> >
> > I checked my notes at it was 100 kB per binary: they are 212 kB larger
> > (sysusers 51 kB → 137 kB, tmpfiles 84 kB → 212 kB); I tested with
> > systemd 243-8.
> >
> > It might be possible to make it a bit smaller if one was to somehow
> > link libsystemd0 for functions available there (libsystemd-shared
> > currently duplicates those).
>

That is not possible. There is global state that is not to be shared.
See https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/3516#issuecomment-227482524

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler
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