Re: libsystemd dependencies

Bruno Haible <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.standards,gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.general
Message-ID <22569111.SfH6JfJWFI@nimes> 
Jacob Bachmeyer wrote:
> some of the blame for this needs to fall on the 
> systemd maintainers and their "katamari" architecture.  There is no good 
> reason for notifications of daemon startup to pull in liblzma, but using 
> libsystemd for that purpose does exactly that, and ended up getting 
> xz-utils targeted as a means of getting to sshd without the OpenSSH 
> maintainers noticing.

The systemd people are working on reducing the libsystemd dependencies:
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/32028

However, the question remains unanswered why it needs 3 different
compression libraries (liblzma, libzstd, and liblz4). Why would one
not suffice?
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