Re: MBF proposal: pidof used without Depends: procps

On 07/05/26 11:36, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
> * Gioele Barabucci <[email protected]> [260507 00:45]:
>> ---
>> Subject: ${SOURCE} uses pidof but does not depend on procps
>>
> [..]
>> Alternatively, you could remove all runtime uses of `pidof`.
> 
> That might be too strong a wording, as at least initramfs usecases have 
> TTBOMK no other option?

Maybe "try to remove"?

For most packages just adding `procps` will be more than enough.

More constrained programs could exploit other Essential utilities like 
grep or find. For instance (hat tip to Simon McVittie):

```
find /proc -maxdepth 2 -path '/proc/[0-9]*/exe' \
   -xtype f -lname /usr/bin/$daemon -print -quit`
```

Regards,