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Author: KatolaZ
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To: Steve Litt
CC: dng
Subject: Re: [Dng] Readiness notification (was: One issue with ongoing depoetterization)
On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 01:46:41PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:

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>
> Hi Laurent,
>
> I agree with every single thing you write above, but have one question
> for you: What does Devuan do when daemons like cupsd and sshd make
> sd_notify calls, and these don't condition the call on sd_notify being
> available, and sd_notify cannot be conditionally recompiled out of the
> program? Is Devuan going to rewrite every single daemon?
>


You can always patch-out the calls to sd_notify, can't you? Patching
vanilla software to adhere to a set of requirements is exactly what
distributions normally do, after all....

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