[arch-dev-public] Cyclic dependencies between systemd and util-linux

[Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi]

On 02/24/2014 03:56 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote:
> Right now, we have a problem with cyclic dependencies in core: systemd
> requires libblkid and libuuid (systemd-udevd) and util-linux requires
> libudev (findmnt, and soon uuidd [1]).
> 
> I don't like this situation and currently it is revoled by adding
> systemd as optdepend to util-linux. This has the side effect that in a
> chroot with only certain packages installed, one has to explicitly
> install systemd to get findmnt working. Since I've run into this
> situation and cyclic deps are bad, I propose the following:
> 
> Split both util-linux and systemd into libutil-linux/util-linux and
> libsystemd/systemd. Then we could have both util-linux and systemd
> depend on both libsystemd and libutil-linux.
> 
> [1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/util-linux-ng/msg08699.html
> 

We also have another set when installing {base} group:

warning: util-linux will be installed before its coreutils dependency
warning: util-linux will be installed before its pam dependency
warning: shadow will be installed before its pam dependency


-- 
Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
\cos^2\alpha + \sin^2\alpha = 1

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