Re: systemd as external dependency

[Evandro Fernandes Giovanini <efgiovanini gmail com>]

Em Qui, 2011-05-19 às 15:15 +0200, Lennart Poettering escreveu:
> On Thu, 19.05.11 00:50, Sergey Udaltsov (sergey udaltsov gmail com) wrote:
> 
> > 
> > > I think the best way to save resources is not to run anything. For stuff
> > > like hostnames/locale/time which is used only every other moonphase
> > > having tiny single-purpose mini-services is perfectly appropriate. I
> > > don't think there would be any benefit in merging these mini daemons
> > > into one. Au contraire, I'd guess you'd waste even more resources with
> > > dlopen() and friends.
> > Can all those services be standardized using DBus interfaces (DBus
> > activation if necessary)? IMHO that's the only way to remain friendly
> > to non-linux OSes, not having any bits of systemd (or distros that are
> > not using it)?
> 
> Some can. Not all.
> 
> The hostname mechanism is explained in very much detail here:
> 
> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/hostnamed
> 
> As suggested a couple of times I believe the mode of cooperation with
> the Solaris/BSD folks here should be to share those interfaces, not the
> code behind it.
> 
> Something similar is true for the locale/timezone/time mechanisms.
> 

Would you propose a specific set of interfaces as blessed external
dependencies instead of systemd entirely? I believe that would make this
discussion quite a bit simpler.

Cheers,
Evandro