Re: Bits from the Release Team: Architecture health check
On 29/01/14 22:50, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Per Josselin's latest discussion of this, there doesn't appear to be any
> direct GNOME dependencies on systemd itself that would be blocking for
> jessie.
Sorry, I got completely the opposite impression from this tonight:
On 29/01/14 17:41, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le mercredi 29 janvier 2014 à 19:03 +0200, Adrian Bunk a écrit :
>>> > > No, you are not. There are several features in systemd that GNOME uses.
>>> > > One of them is user sessions, for which there will indeed be a fallback
>>> > > in place. But it is not the only one.
>> >
>> > Can you provide a list of features without a fallback in place?
>
> At least logind, timedated, hostnamed, localed, the boot control
> interfaces. With a very widespread level of failure depending on the
> unavailable interface.
>
>> > Assuming jessie will support multiple init systems, why would GNOME need
>> > a dependency on systemd?
>
> Because it needs logind.
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2014/01/msg00360.html
So, even having an adequate logind substitute, GNOME is expected to be
considerably impaired without systemd?
Regards,
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Steven Chamberlain
steven@pyro.eu.org
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