Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

[Brian May <brian@microcomaustralia.com.au>]

On 24 October 2013 08:39, Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> wrote:

No, please reread that mail from the release team.  It is a *proposal* from
the systemd maintainers to implement full systemd support.  The release team
have not said that they have endorsed this as a release goal (and frankly, I
don't expect them to do so; it's not the release team's place to decide what
Debian should use as its default init system, and to endorse such a release
goal would presuppose such a decision).

By my reading of the proposal, it doesn't change the default init system. It only proposes to ship systemd service file with every package that ships an init.d script, so if you don't want to change you don't have to. The release time can endorse this proposal and not make any decision on the default init system.

If Gnome depends on gnome-settings-daemon, which now depends on systemd, this might be a worrying trend, as non-Linux kernels don't support systemd.

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Brian May <brian@microcomaustralia.com.au>