Bug#1101764: systemd: networkd largely useless without resolved

[Kevin P. Fleming]

On Mon, 31 Mar 2025 13:10:41 -0400 Kevin Otte <nivex at nivex.net> wrote:
> Now, I have just migrated a number of bookworm machines to using systemd-resolved for many of the benefits it provides for managing DNS. I do not use or care about mDNS, but apparently I am in the minority on this. Nevertheless, I do hope that systemd-resolved is restored so it can continue to be used. If this happens, I propose that systemd-networkd be built as a separate package so that it can list a Depends (or at the very least a Recommends) on systemd-resolved for the reasons listed above.

I operate ~30 machines, most of them on Bookworm, and all of them using systemd-networkd *without* systemd-resolved. Please do not make systemd-networkd Depends on systemd-resolved, and don't remove it just because systemd-resolved is not available. systemd-networkd provides many benefits over other network-management tools beyond sending discovered DNS information to a resolver.
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