Bug#727708: init system discussion status
On Fri, 2014-01-03 at 18:41 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Uoti Urpala <uoti.urpala@pp1.inet.fi> writes:
>
> > One case to consider is what should happen with GNOME if it requires
> > interfaces that nobody has implemented for sysvinit.
>
> The likelihood of this and possible impact is one of the things that I'm
> checking on. I'd rather not have the argument if it turns out not to be
> something we have to worry about for the jessie release.
Essentially this boils down to whether the logind interfaces will be
available when using sysvinit. Most of the other interfaces (at least
for current gnome as in experimental) would cause some functionality to
either be missing or not work, but wouldn't yield a completely unusable
system.
Not having the logind interface is a lot harder to cope with and
something that will not only impact Gnome. So essentially the most
likely impact of using sysvinit _without_ a provider of the logind
interface would be a non-usable Gnome desktop (and potentially even GDM
to be unusable) on Jessie systems.
--
Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd@debian.org>
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