[arch-general] What can be deleted, when not using systemd - was: polkit package upgrade patch

[Baho Utot]

On 08/11/2012 02:11 PM, Lukas Jirkovsky wrote:
> On 11 August 2012 19:14, Baho Utot <baho-utot at columbus.rr.com> wrote:
>> On 08/11/2012 12:22 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote:
>>> I would be surprised if a systemd-based system requires more resources
>>> than a sysvinit-based one, but that is of course something one would
>>> have to measure for each particular use-case.
>>>
>>> There are lots of systemd-based embedded systems cropping up (the
>>> embedded world seems more excited about sysntemd than the desktop
>>> world). The aim of systemd is to work on anything from embedded, via
>>> desktop to servers.
>>>
>>> -t
>>
>> I am not looking at this from an systemd point of view.
>> My point is the constant bloat with software today.  Theses bloated packages
>> will not fit/function on hand held devices.
>> Is it not more sensible to build small apps that do one or two things well
>> then bloated apps that try to do 25 things unwell?
> Systemd is broken into multiple small utilities (see eg. systemd-tools
> that are used by initscripts already) that does one thing, so it's not
> one big scary binary that does everything.

systemd is one source distributed package

arch split the package into the multiples you see here.

> In fact I believe* systemd is more suited for embedded devices than
> the current initscripts. Systemd is a bunch of small binaries that
> should be fast to execute in contrary to interpreting piles of bash
> scripts.
>

It doesn't run on my android device nor would it be needed or required.