On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: >> What would be the effecr if we decided to drop GNOME, because it >> depends on systemd? > > In this hypothetical scenario: > > It would be fairly easy for a downstream of Debian to mandate systemd > for their users, and provide Gnome. > > It would not be anywhere near as easy for a downstream of Debian to > undo the assumption by Debian (de facto or de jure) of systemd as the > one true init system. > > If it comes down to it I would prefer to drop Gnome than to make > systemd mandatory for all of Debian's users and downstreams just > because Gnome had introduced a hard dependency on systemd. > > Luckily this is all hypothetical.
The only hypothetical situation that would result in dropping gnome is one where the TC enacts language barring dependencies on non-default init systems. In all other cases systemd remains in debian, and gnome can remain by using systemd. So, to lets take a step back from this hypothetical cliff by removing that idea from the discussion. Best wishes, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
