If you've encountered issues with systemd running as init, please file them as bugs against the systemd package or systemd upstream; those complaints have no place in a bug report against gnome-settings-daemon, both because they're bugs in systemd (not in gnome-settings-daemon) and because they're only bugs in systemd's service files for running as init, not bugs in the bits gnome-settings-daemon uses. Mentioning every random anecdote about systemd issues in every discussion about systemd is unhelpful and unproductive. Filing them as bugs against systemd is the first step towards getting them fixed.
Please note that, for now, the dependency on systemd is only present on Linux, not on other kernels; non-Linux kernels can run gnome-settings-daemon without the functionality systemd enables (namely power management). This dependency also has nothing to do with running systemd as init, and the Debian systemd package is (sadly) heavily patched to let logind run without systemd. Please also see the many upstream posts like http://www.hadess.net/2013/10/more-power-management-changes.html , explaining why the code in GNOME that duplicates systemd functionality (such as logind) is being dropped in favor of systemd. That change was announced just over a year ago (see https://lwn.net/Articles/520892/ and https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2012-October/msg00056.html ), and more discussions and decisions like that are already being made on an ongoing basis, resulting in significantly simpler and cleaner GNOME code. I'd strongly suggest taking up feature requests like these with upstream, not with Debian; the time to deal with them is when the upstream change is being discussed and implemented, not when it filters into Debian. I sincerely hope not to see Debian permanently fork GNOME or its components; there are enough GNOME forks already (and note that both Cinnamon and MATE are packaged). - Josh Triplett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
