Bug#1005223: bad package dependencies, power button not working

[Michael Biebl]

Am 09.02.22 um 10:40 schrieb Michael Biebl:
> That said, debootstrap ttbomk does not respect Recommends, which is 
> probably why you ended up without dbus.
> 
> In d-i, this is solved by having a "standard task", which installs all 
> packages with prio standard (and the priority of dbus was bumped to 
> standard accordingly.)
> 
> If you want to intall debian manually via debootstrap my recommendation 
> thus is to install all the packages from the standard task
> https://wiki.debian.org/tasksel#A.22standard.22_task
> This will get you an installation that is closer to what d-i would create.
> 
> The reason why dbus is only a recommends in systemd is that we want to 
> allow for more minimal installations (like in containers, single user 
> servers) where logind is not strictly necessary.

There is some more background at
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=758111

Now, we could obviously make dbus a hard dependency of systemd, but I'm 
sure that would equally make some uses unhappy.

The core systemd functionality works fine without dbus installed.
It's additional functionality, like logind ( which among others also 
handles power button events), unprivileged access by non-root users etc, 
which we need dbus for.

By using prio=standard and a Recommends in systemd, we provide more 
flexibility in how the base system can be assembled.

Maybe we are at a point though, where we should just bite the bullet and 
make dbus a dependency of systemd.

I'd like more input on this matter from other team members though.

I've also CCed Simon as maintainer of dbus, if we'd be ok with this.

Michael

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