Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-systemd-only deprecation

["Canek Peláez Valdés" <caneko@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 31/07/2013 19:56, Stroller wrote:
>>>
>>> On 31 July 2013, at 18:23, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>>> ...
>>>> Whinging about systemd binaries being installed is valid, but whinging
>>>> about some data files is not. Anyone who does is letting their OCD show
>>>> in ways they really should be keeping private.
>>>
>>> Hmmmn, it's a bit freaking weird - if I'm understanding correctly some of the statements made here about systemd - that there will be files installed to /etc/init.d/ that don't actually do anything.
>>>
>>> Stroller.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> You are understanding it wrong. The scene being worked towards is:
>>
>> ebuilds for services will install openrc scripts in /etc/init.d
>> ebuilds for services will install unit files somewhere else.
>> Only one of those sets of teeny weeny files can be used at a time, the
>> set in user depends on the service manager.
>>
>> There's an idea floating around that openrc could use systemd unit files
>> but it's still just an idea. If it becomes more than an idea, the files
>> in /etc/init.d may or may not be dispensed with. Either way it doesn't
>> matter. Unit files are unlikely to number more than 100 total, and are
>> likely to be smaller than 1 fs allocation unit in size.
>
> 160 files in my laptop, using 652K, 122 files in a LAMP server, using 492K.
>
>> bash's man page is considerably larger than all that all by itself.
>
> bash's man page is 62K in my laptop (compressed with bzip2), 277K uncompressed.
>
> So, not quite exactly like you say, but the point remains true. The
> man pages in my laptop use more than 20 times the space used in
> /usr/lib/systemd (and that includes binaries like systemd itself and
> systemd-udev).

Oh, I just noticed that systemd-udev is a link to /sbin/udev. So add
205K more for it.

Regards.
-- 
Canek Peláez Valdés
Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México