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Re:Excellent succinct breakdown of the xz mess, from an Open... by zokier on Friday April 05, 2024 @01:27PM (#39944929)
> But obviously you need a library to implement actually speaking system's protocol

That is overstatement. The docs have basic self-contained example how to implement the notification without libraries, its 50 lines, majority of which is just error handling:

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/devel/sd_no...

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Re:Excellent succinct breakdown of the xz mess, from an Open... by NekkoDroid on Friday April 05, 2024 @01:46PM (#39945129)
The example was only recently added (like 1-2 days ago). Before that it was only really explained and said it was stable (and guarnteed as stable API).
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Re:Excellent succinct breakdown of the xz mess, from an Open... by logicprog on Friday April 05, 2024 @04:50PM (#39947052)
Oh, cool! I was just trying to give the maximum benefit of the doubt, but this is good to know. The systemd hate never seems as justified as it'd like to be...
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