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Auteur: Arnt Karlsen
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Aan: dng
Onderwerp: Re: [DNG] Why Debian 8 Pinning is (or isn't) pointless
On Wed, 27 Jul 2016 13:17:40 -0700, Rick wrote in message
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> Quoting Simon Hobson (linux@???):
>
> > And won't you then find that all those packages with gratuitous
> > libsystemd0 dependencies will stop working ?
>
> I have a better question: Is there something about empiricism that
> many people on this mailing list cannot cope with?
>
> Back when I had newly joined this mailing list and all of these idle
> allegations and rhetorical questions started being posted, I decided
> to do that thing.... What's it called? Oh, right: 'Checking.'
>
> I did a quick smoke test on my test VM by chmod'ing
> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsystemd.so.0.3.1 to 000, starting Apache,
> making sure it appeared to work OK, and skimming its logs looking for
> anything amiss. Nothing wrong that I was able to see.
>
> If I ever get to worrying about this in production after attending to
> all the myriad _real_ concerns I have, I suppose I'd more-carefully
> check various things that might have screwy problem and might not.
> Meanwhile, I also would expect none, simply on grounds of the known
> facts of what's in the damned thing.
>
> Now, you guys presumably all have Linux systems. Why pose the
> question? Why not just check, if you want to know?


..re-running your tests now, do you still get the same results
now, as back then when you first checked?

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