On 03.Nov.2013, at 10:33, Marko Randjelovic wrote: > On Tue, 29 Oct 2013 16:55:44 -0400 > 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? > > I am sure this is not urgent, Gnome should not be default DE and even > they could easily just make two (or more) DE options in installer. > XFCE4 is on Wheezy DVD-1. > > Decisions like changing such an essential part of OS should not be made > in rush.
This is wise. Put in other words: If you do not know what to do, do nothing. > I do not see enough reasons for Gnome to depend on systemd, other than > forcing us to switch to systemd for interests of big corporations. Who knows? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennart_Poettering (the one that wrote systemd) tells us "Poettering is a long term contributor of the GNOME project, a GNOME Foundation member and..." -- Markus -- 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/1d5d8055-d172-47c3-a9d5-6f8c49cca...@gmail.com
