Re: networking packages when using systemd

On 2/22/26 10:10 PM, Randy McMurchy ([email protected] via blfs-dev Mailing List) 
wrote:
> On 2/22/2026 6:35 PM, lfs ([email protected] via blfs-dev Mailing List) wrote:
>> On Sunday, February 22nd, 2026 at 20:40, Bruce Dubbs<[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I am thinking about dropping the dhcpcd and bridge-utils from the forthcoming version
>>> of BLFS.  They seem redundant and unneeded when using systemd-networkd.
>>>
>> So, the new regime's cull has started.
>>
>> Seriously though, is there some way, outside of reading the commit logs in great
>> detail, by which anyone, coming new to BLFS (and LFS I guess), might see a list
>> of the "no longer maintained, as systemd has absorbed them into the monolith"
>> packages, so that such people would know that they had been there once, and
>> that their ghosts still linger on.
> I have been asked by Bruce to maintain a branch of sysV LFS/BLFS and intend on doing 
> so. I will make every attempt to maintain a system that is stable, tested, and 
> current. How long a sysV system can exist is what I want to find out. I'll be working 
> hard at this project and I'm certain others will contribute to it. Details will 
> follow after I finish building a few instances of the current 13.0 and start testing 
> BLFS. I read every commit post and I'm aware of changes that can affect the sysV 
> side. 
For those that do not know, the LFS Books are edited in xml files using DocBook 
syntax.  There are currently 1200 of these xml files in BLFS.  One of the advantages 
of this scheme is that we can mark sections of the files for 'sysv' only or 'systemd' 
only. Of these files there are 125 that have systemd specific portions and 139 that 
have sysv specific information.

There is no intention to change this scheme.  The packages that are generic can be 
shared.  Randy will be able to use these as is and just concentrate on the sysv 
sections.

Getting everything set up will take a while, but I think we should be able to get 
things in order sometime next month.

   -- Bruce

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