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On 25/02/2014 14:40, Tanstaafl wrote: |
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> On 2014-02-24 4:48 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> In Gentoo you need systemd, but that's a decision from the Gentoo |
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>> maintainers. They do the job, they make the choices. |
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> Interesting. Now I have to spin off a new thread as to why this decision |
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> was made if it isn't forced by GNOME itself... |
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Gnome uses logind, Canek has consistently stated that for months now. |
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logind is part of systemd (AIUI it's more "bundled" than "a chunk of a |
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monolothic lump") and replaces consolekit. |
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The feature set of logind can be implemented in something else. Or, that |
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functionality in previous Gnome versions forward-ported to 3.10 to be |
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able to drop logind as a dep. |
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OpenBSD would have had little choice in this as systemd doesn't run on |
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OpenBSD - systemd uses many features unique to the Linux kernel. So they |
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would have had to do *something* about logind. Whatever they did, it |
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would have been a non-trivial amount of work. |
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I suspect the Gentoo Gnome maintainers were not prepared to, or don't |
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have the manpower, to do the same on Gentoo so took the easier route of |
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depending on systemd. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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