Monday, July 31, 2017

Re: net/glib2-networking: Remove systemd service

On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 07:33:14PM +0200, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 07:21:45PM +0200, Klemens Nanni wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 07:08:02PM +0200, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 06:53:14PM +0200, Klemens Nanni wrote:
> > > > Stumbled across /usr/local/lib/systemd/ the other day, so here's the
> > > > clean up.
> > > >
> > > > The configure script has no knob for it so simply remove the files in
> > > > post-install.
> > > >
> > > > `make plist' works fine and also strips two old directories.
> > > >
> > > > Feedback? Comments?
> > >
> > > There are multiple instances on this in ports. They do no harm imho and may be
> > > useful for reference.
> > Manuals and documentation are for reference, these service files are
> > just confusing and useless imho.
> >
> > We have indeed quite a few systemd specific (service) files laying
> > around; I don't see the point in leaving them: Why not keeping local
> > installations clean? Surely they're "harmless" but I find systemd
> > (service) files simply confusing and useless on my OpenBSD machines.
>
> Can you also clean all the Linux, AIX, Solaris etc. documentation from
> /usr/local/share/doc/* please. From all ports. Same with all man pages that
> ports install and that have reference to system V, systemd, openrc, /proc or
> in general things that don't apply to OpenBSD.
> I am sorry but what you say makes no sense.
>
> $ find /usr/local/lib/systemd/ | wc
> 15 15 783
> $ du -sh /usr/local/lib/systemd/
> 30.0K /usr/local/lib/systemd/
>
> OMG it's huge and not clean!!!
It's just your argument I don't get/agree with: Instead of starting to
clean things up you're not doing anything at all because there's more
to clean anyway?

Of course getting rid of every misplaced/unsupported/whatever bit seems
utopian but not doing it where easily possible seems illogical to me.

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