Bug#990349: systemd-sysusers keeps creating systemd-timesync and systemd-coredump

[Christoph Anton Mitterer]

On Sat, 2021-06-26 at 20:07 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Then systemd would just setup all groups that are used by systemd
> (and 
> sub-packages).

Seems to be a good change... but it would then still set up *all*
users, whether the respective part is used or no.

> Personally, I don't think it's worth the effort.
> You can try to convince upstream to split up the (monolithic) 
> systemd.conf this way though.

I've asked them to consider this in:
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/20044


> If this is not happening upstream, we'd have yet another patch
> against 
> upstream which we never can get rid off again, so I'm not very keen
> to 
> maintain a patch for such a minor issue.

I could provide you with a patch, but I kinda see your point that this
is some effort just to keep things a bit cleaner.

OTOH, less unused stuff => cleaner/more secure



Thanks,
Chris.