On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 8:58 PM, <berenger.mo...@neutralite.org> wrote: > Le 31.10.2013 21:06, André Nunes Batista a écrit : >> On Wed, 2013-10-30 at 14:22 +0000, Tom H wrote: >>> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 8:55 PM, John <johnrchamp...@wowway.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Could someone who has been following the giant fuss on -devel over >>>> init systems explain why there's such a sense of dire urgency? >>>> >>>> Is it provoked by systemd's effort to be adopted having at least found >>>> a home with gnome, made urgent by gnome's status as our default? >>> >>> Although this isn't the first debian-devel systemd-slugfest, there's >>> more of a sense of urgency and finality this time because GNOME 3.8 >>> depends on logind, and, other than on Ubuntu for systemd <=204, that >>> means that GNOME 3.8 depends on systemd-as-pid-1. >> >> And does one really needs Gnome? Based on the level of user >> dissatisfaction I'd say Gnome shouldn't interfere with boot process. >> Especially one that tries to bundle everything... maybe gnome-devs are >> trying hard to address smarts, tablets and gadgets only? > > That's not gnome which changes the boot process. It's systemd. It simply > happens that gnome depends on systemd in Debian build. > Since AFAIK gnome is still available on platforms not based on linux kernel, > unlike systemd, I really think that it's gnome maintainer's choice to have > this hard dependency.
If it's the Debian's GNOME maintainers' choice, how come GNOME depends on systemd in Gentoo? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=SxjUygj1y2HKXgDFX4eunn7SwWiHtScbyx=0w_g4up...@mail.gmail.com
