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Author: Rowland Penny
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] samba-libs package in Debian now depends on libsystemd0
On 25/06/16 17:34, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Jun 2016 15:27:54 +0100
> Rowland Penny <rpenny241155@???> wrote:
>
>
>> It is probably easier than that, the Samba 'configure' code has a
>> '--without-systemd' switch.
>>
>> Just need to alter debian/rules etc
>>
>> Rowland
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> My suspicion is that the --without-systemd switch represents a huge
> defeat for Lennart and the Redhats. When Debian decided to switch in
> the summer of 2014, the systemd cartel were strutting and boasting that
> they would soon own the world.


I don't really know how to tell you this, but the switch (along with its
opposite '--with-systemd') was added to Samba by a red-hat employee.

Rowland

>
> Now, 2 years later, Samba, a bedrock "killer app" for Linux, still has
> a --without-systemd compile option. If Redhat had truly succeeded in
> their plans, such an option would be unneeded and useless in 2016.
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
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