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On 05/15/2013 07:26 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: |
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> On Wed, 15 May 2013 17:03:13 +0200 |
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> Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o> wrote: |
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>> On 05/15/2013 03:41 PM, Fabio Erculiani wrote: |
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>>> ... GNOME ... |
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>> And given that the end-plan according to the guys is to kill the |
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>> distributions shall we just close Gentoo now? |
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> Let's not exaggerate things, there are a ton of other DEs out there; |
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> are all of them starting to depend on systemd specific features? |
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Luckily not, yet _that_'s what is in the roadmap apparently. |
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> Whether or not it is terrible, it is a time sink; is it worth doing it? |
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For any non-linux, less-than-3.x-linux, non-glibc system user probably. |
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> Indeed, the goal here is solely to make "systemd more accessible"; we |
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> shouldn't pursue it to be the main init system or force it upon users, |
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> unless there are indicators in the future that it became better (eg. |
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> supports BSD, ...) for everyone. |
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And that has my support, there is disagreement on what that entitles. |
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> Used GNOME for months, then with 3.6 - 3.8 it started to break on me; |
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> it didn't work on either OpenRC or systemd. While I was a happy user at |
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> first, recent events made me lose interest in it; I think a discussion |
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> regarding init systems and similar software shouldn't be focused on a |
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> single DE, so I too am not sure why focus is laid on GNOME here... |
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Since it is the DE forcing all those changes down distribution throats. |
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