Adam Borowski <kilobyte@???> writes:
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 09:33:52PM +1030, Arthur Marsh wrote:
>> Hi, has anyone built the xserver-xorg-core from Debian unstable without
>> libsystemd0?
>
> libsystemd0 is benign.

libsystemd0 is a library implementation of (some parts of) the systemd
API supposed to enable applications using/ depending on this API to run
on systems where the 'main' API implementation is not available, IOW,
it's a fallback implementation of systemd whose presence is not as easy
to spot. This means the set of components which have been
libsystemd'ified are a systemd-system in everything but the name as the
prefferred API definition is whatever the people who control systemd
consider suitable for the ends they're trying to achieve and the API
implementation is provided by the systemd project.

This may fit some definition of benign, eg, insofar it enables
application specifically written for systemd systems to be used without
using the main systemd implementation, or it may not, as there's little
reason to keep maintaining the secondary implementation once the primary
one is considered "sufficiently prevalent" that compatibilty with
systems not using it is no longer considered desirable.

But that's a matter of opinion and systemd itself also fits some
definitions of benign.