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From: Tom Wijsman <TomWij@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Debian just voted in systemd for default init system in jessie
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 14:44:25
Message-Id: 20140322154353.0e9cd383@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Debian just voted in systemd for default init system in jessie by thegeezer
1 On Sat, 22 Mar 2014 13:00:59 +0000
2 thegeezer <thegeezer@×××××××××.net> wrote:
3
4 > [...] so my point over 5 weeks ago was not about the difficulty in
5 > _finding_ the changes,
6
7 Ah, thanks; I see.
8
9 > but about keeping track of those changes and implementing htem.
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11 Here, I would agree with if you have a lot of other things to do; I
12 don't see this as a problem though for someone whom puts time apart to
13 do such a fork, keeping track is as easy as following two git logs.
14 Granted, understanding and implementing the changes is another story,
15 in which I again agree with you; I just wanted to point out they're not
16 hidden, they're just not announced, but it appears we agree on that.
17
18 > if you read the rest of the thread you will see that in a whole i was
19 > arguing that it is disingenuous to suggest that gnome does not
20 > require logind.
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22 There is indeed an URL brought up early on, with which I agree with:
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24 https://blogs.gnome.org/ovitters/2013/09/25/gnome-and-logindsystemd-thoughts/
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26 There's also a more recent post that I think hasn't been brought up:
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28 https://blogs.gnome.org/ovitters/2014/02/03/my-thoughts-on-the-default-init-system-for-debian-discussion
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30 > if you don't see that perhaps you could volunteer to add logind api
31 > features to openRC ?
32
33 Well, I wish I could accomplish all these things; but I have other work
34 that I'm committing myself to, I've been thinking about a proof of
35 concept to point out it is possible but I haven't had the time to do it.
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37 My past commits were spent on bringing MATE to the Portage tree; if I
38 would work on a logind implementation, there wouldn't be MATE.
39
40 --
41 With kind regards,
42
43 Tom Wijsman (TomWij)
44 Gentoo Developer
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