From unknown Thu Mar 28 21:22:08 2024 X-Loop: owner@bugs.devuan.org Subject: bug#481: gparted-1.0.0-0.1 comes with dependencies for systemd components Reply-To: Mark Hindley , 481@bugs.devuan.org Resent-From: Mark Hindley Resent-To: devuan-bugs@lists.dyne.org Resent-CC: devuan-dev@lists.dyne.org X-Loop: owner@bugs.devuan.org Resent-Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2020 12:03:07 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: owner@bugs.devuan.org X-Devuan-PR-Message: followup 481 X-Devuan-PR-Package: gparted X-Devuan-PR-Keywords: References: <20200603080802.GA30344@ikki.ethgen.ch> <20200603094731.GU3124@hindley.org.uk> <20200603101643.GD7624@ikki.ethgen.ch> <20200603103709.GV3124@hindley.org.uk> <20200603114406.GA4665@ikki.ethgen.ch> <20200603080802.GA30344@ikki.ethgen.ch> Received: via spool by 481-submit@bugs.devuan.org id=B481.159118560231786 (code B ref 481); Wed, 03 Jun 2020 12:03:07 +0000 Received: (at 481) by bugs.devuan.org; 3 Jun 2020 12:00:02 +0000 Delivered-To: devuanbugs@dyne.org Received: from tupac3.dyne.org [195.169.149.119] by doc.devuan.org with IMAP (fetchmail-6.4.0.beta4) for (single-drop); Wed, 03 Jun 2020 12:00:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx.hindley.org.uk (mohindley.plus.com [81.174.245.179]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by vm6.ganeti.dyne.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 51554F60574 for <481@bugs.devuan.org>; Wed, 3 Jun 2020 13:53:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: from apollo.hindleynet ([192.168.1.3] helo=hindley.org.uk) by mx.hindley.org.uk with smtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jgRxA-00060l-3H; Wed, 03 Jun 2020 12:53:04 +0100 Received: (nullmailer pid 14865 invoked by uid 1000); Wed, 03 Jun 2020 11:53:03 -0000 Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2020 12:53:03 +0100 From: Mark Hindley To: Klaus Ethgen Cc: 481@bugs.devuan.org Message-ID: <20200603115303.GW3124@hindley.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20200603114406.GA4665@ikki.ethgen.ch> User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.0 required=5.0 tests=SPF_PASS autolearn=disabled version=3.4.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on tupac3.dyne.org Control: tags -1 debian On Wed, Jun 03, 2020 at 12:44:06PM +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > > Well you were trying to install gparted and that does require logind > > functionality so you do want it and would use it, if only indirectly. > > Thats exactly the problem, it doesn't. That is a weak dependency that > should at most be recommended. That how it worked with earlier versions > too. That dependency for logind is just artefactual and not really > needed. OK. That is fine. I understand better. However, gparted is not a forked package and Devuan uses Debian's packages directly. If you want them to reconsider that decision, please would report the issue directly to Debian's BTS. > > If you want to avoid that you could consider using one of the command line > > partitioners like parted, fdisk.... > > Yes, yes, thats how I use it most of the time. However... > > Let me express something else about elogind and the library replacement > for libsystemd. On one hand I like it. But it did put the library to > /usr leaving my system unbootable. I had to recover it with grml. Could you submit a new report for that against libelogind0, please? Thanks. Mark