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Author: Bruce Perens
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To: Hendrik Boom, dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] I have a question about libsystemd0 in devuan ascii,
But it has the name libsystemd0! It should be called The Init Library That
Must Not Be Named. :-)

On Fri, Jun 16, 2017, 15:53 Hendrik Boom <hendrik@???> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 11:53:13PM +0200, Dragan FOSS wrote:
> > On 16.06.2017. 23:22, Rick Moen wrote:
> >
> > >The presence of libsystemd0, albeit annoying, doesn't prevent you from
> > >installing and using OpenRC.
> >
> >
> > The presence of libsystemd0 means that devuan is not able to function
> > without systemd.
>
> libsystemd0 provides the interfaces of systemd for those pieces of
> software that
> require them, but provides the empty implementations; i.e., informing the
> caller
> that the requested acton is not available.
>
> It is completely compatible with not having systemd, and provides an easy
> migration path for packages that are designed to test for the presence of
> systemd
> and not use it if it is absent.
>
> -- hendrik
>
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