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On 10/12/17 23:08, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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>> Oddly enough, although the details are different, that passage I've |
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>> quoted pretty accurately describes how I feel about Gnome ...:-) |
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> I can't find it right now on Google, but I vaguely remember that |
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> Lennart asked the Gnome people to make systemd a hard dependancy. Not |
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> much later logind, which is required by Gnome, picks up systemd as a |
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> hard dependancy. |
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Imho that's no problem. If a higher level has a hard dependency on a |
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lower level, that's no surprise. And why should I care if someone else's |
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desktop pulls in any particular low-level plumbing. :-) |
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BUT! If my choice of low-level plumbing (systemd) pulls in a desktop I |
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don't want that is a BIG PROBLEM. If I'm running headless, I don't even |
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WANT a desktop !!! I more and more get the feeling that linux is |
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standardising on the Gnome desktop, which I really just DO NOT get on with. |
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Cheers, |
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Wol |
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