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Re: Removing libsystemd0 from a non-systemd system

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On Sun, 6 May 2018, The Wanderer wrote:

> On 2018-05-06 at 21:25, David Griffith wrote:
>
>> What's the point of allowing libsystemd0 to exist when systemd has
>> been purged?
>
> So that programs which interface with systemd can detect whether or not
> systemd is present, and fall back to alternate code paths when it's not.
>
> As I understand matters (without having actually dug into the code),
> that detection code literally is what libsystemd0 *is*; when systemd is
> present, it passes through function calls to be handled in appropriate
> places, and when systemd is not present, it returns an appropriate
> default or failure value.

I was under the impression that systemd-shim provided this functionality. 
When I look at https://packages.debian.org/stretch/systemd-shim and 
https://packages.debian.org/stretch/libsystemd0, their functions appear to 
be identical except that the latter actually does talk to systemd if 
systemd is present.

-- 
David Griffith
dave@661.org

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Removing libsystemd0 from a non-systemd system David Griffith <dave@661.org> - 2018-05-06 05:20 +0200
  Re: Removing libsystemd0 from a non-systemd system <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-05-06 09:00 +0200
  Re: Removing libsystemd0 from a non-systemd system Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2018-05-06 19:20 +0200
    Re: Removing libsystemd0 from a non-systemd system David Griffith <dave@661.org> - 2018-05-07 03:50 +0200
      Re: Removing libsystemd0 from a non-systemd system The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2018-05-07 04:30 +0200
        Re: Removing libsystemd0 from a non-systemd system David Griffith <dave@661.org> - 2018-05-07 08:40 +0200
          Re: Removing libsystemd0 from a non-systemd system Ansgar Burchardt <"Ansgar Burchardt"@43-1.org> - 2018-05-07 10:00 +0200
      Re: Removing libsystemd0 from a non-systemd system Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2018-05-07 22:00 +0200
        Re: Removing libsystemd0 from a non-systemd system Abdullah Ramazanoğlu <ar018@yahoo.com> - 2018-05-08 01:50 +0200
          Re: Removing libsystemd0 from a non-systemd system <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-05-08 06:40 +0200
            Re: Removing libsystemd0 from a non-systemd system David Griffith <dave@661.org> - 2018-05-08 09:00 +0200
            Re: Removing libsystemd0 from a non-systemd system Abdullah Ramazanoğlu <ar018@yahoo.com> - 2018-05-08 11:30 +0200

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