Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

[Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org>]

Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> writes:
> Aside from libc, upstart has only two external library dependencies (three
> in trunk), dbus and nih:
>
> $ objdump -p /sbin/init | grep NEEDED
>   NEEDED               libnih.so.1
>   NEEDED               libnih-dbus.so.1
>   NEEDED               libdbus-1.so.3
>   NEEDED               librt.so.1
>   NEEDED               libc.so.6
> $
>
> And upstart is rigorously unit-tested at build time.
>
> That's a far cry from systemd's 8 external dependencies:
>
> $ objdump -p /lib/systemd/systemd | grep NEEDED
>   NEEDED               libselinux.so.1
>   NEEDED               libdbus-1.so.3
>   NEEDED               libudev.so.0
>   NEEDED               libwrap.so.0
>   NEEDED               libpam.so.0
>   NEEDED               libaudit.so.0
>   NEEDED               libcap.so.2
>   NEEDED               libkmod.so.2
>   NEEDED               librt.so.1
>   NEEDED               libc.so.6
>   NEEDED               ld-linux.so.2
> $


Hmm. Without further information, that could just as well be interpreted
as upstart containing 5 less tested reimplementations of existing
libraries.



Best,

   -Nikolaus

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