Re:Debian 10 “Buster” Released
by ahazred8ta on Sunday July 07, 2019 @12:46PM
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It's a dependency cruft issue. "It does many things, poorly" is a common complaint.
"Systemd also provides a number of other executables (systemd-udevd, systemd-logind, systemd-resolved, systemd-networkd, systemd-tmpfiles, systemd-localed, systemd-machined, systemd-nspawn, etc.), libraries (libsystemd, libudev), a PAM module (pam_systemd.so) and a UEFI boot manager (systemd-boot), among other components. So any other package that needs any of these components, even if it is just one, would pull in THE WHOLE SYSTEMD PACKAGE as a dependency."
"Systemd also provides a number of other executables (systemd-udevd, systemd-logind, systemd-resolved, systemd-networkd, systemd-tmpfiles, systemd-localed, systemd-machined, systemd-nspawn, etc.), libraries (libsystemd, libudev), a PAM module (pam_systemd.so) and a UEFI boot manager (systemd-boot), among other components. So any other package that needs any of these components, even if it is just one, would pull in THE WHOLE SYSTEMD PACKAGE as a dependency."