On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 08:03:50PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mardi 14 janvier 2014 à 11:31 -0700, Bdale Garbee a écrit : > > > If dependencies like "installing GNOME enforces systemd as init system" > > > would be legal, then after a few more such dependencies it would turn > > > out that systemd will be the only option available for virtually all > > > users - and that all the hassle of supporting multiple init systems > > > was a waste of effort. > > Please be careful about stacking assumptions like this. Equating GNOME > > to "virtually all users" completely ignores the vast number of Debian > > instances on servers, virtual machines, and embedded systems. And even > > if you only think about client systems, in my own circle of friends > > there's a lot more XFCE4 than GNOME these days. > As their maintainers have stated, Xfce4 and KDE are most likely going to > require systemd soon. There has been no such statement from the XFCE maintainers in this discussion. And all such statements are mere parroting of systemd upstream propaganda. The interfaces that desktops require do not dictate an init system. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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