Hi!
Apologies for jumping into the discussion even though I'm not a Debian
Developer.
> == dependencies rider version L (Loose coupling) ==
>
> This decision is limited to selecting a default initsystem; we
> continue to welcome contributions of support for all init systems.
>
> Software outside of an init system's implementation may not require
> a specific init system to be pid 1, although degraded operation is
> tolerable.
>
> Maintainers are encouraged to accept technically sound patches
> to enable improved interoperation with various init systems.
I'd just like to clarify - say we have a scenario (that I assume might
be realistic) where without systemd, locking screen in GNOME and some
other fairly basic features do not work (have unfixed bugs, possibly
with security implications; possibly these features would be entirely
disabled because of that). GNOME would also display a warning window on
login notifying the user that for a proper GNOME experience, they should
switch their system to systemd. Some *gnome* packages would have
Recommends: systemd.
(Nevertheless, installing (major components of) GNOME might still
be useful for users that do not wish to use the complete desktop
environment but perhaps would want to install a variety of GNOME
applications or work around these issues in their special-purpose
environment.)
Would such a particular example of (greatly, but not fatally) degraded
operation fall within the intent of this proposal?
Thanks,
Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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