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by Tuna-Fish 801 days ago
> FWIW, IMO upstream systemd should split their monolithic library and allow users to pick better that way, but this has other implications on DX.

FWIW, upstream systemd has the opinion that no-one should load the library for startup notification, instead they should use the well documented api and just write a message to a socket.
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idoubtit 801 days ago
Indeed, that's what the Debian maintainer of OpenSSH did soon after the quick security fix. He replaced the dependency on libsystemd with some hand-made code that notifies systemd by socket. https://salsa.debian.org/ssh-team/openssh/-/commit/cc5f37cb8...
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ptx 801 days ago
That's not what they said in their update to the documentation[0] last week, which says that "although using libsystemd is a good choice, this protocol can also be reimplemented without external dependencies".

It calls it a "good choice". Did they say somewhere else that no-one should do it despite it supposedly being a good choice?

[0] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/32030/files

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klooney 800 days ago
Yes- https://mastodon.social/@pid_eins/112202696589971319
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