Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> writes:
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 12:18:09AM +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
>>...
>> > == version "multiple" only ==
>> >
>> > 2. Debian intends to support multiple init systems, for the
>> > foreseeable future, and so long as their respective communities
>> > and code remain healthy. Nothing outside of an init system's
>> > implementation may require a specific init system to be pid 1.
>>
>> It's unclear if reduced functionality (or in the extreme case no
>> functionality) would satisfy this.
>>
>> Would a gnome-session-systemd package that requires systemd violate
>> this (if gnome-session is also available)?
>>...
>
> You are forgetting the best technical solution, which is what
> gnome-session is actually implementing at the moment:
>
> session_tracking="systemd (with fallback to ConsoleKit)" [1]
No. My question isn't about logind, but about using a user systemd
session to supervise processes started by the session. IIRC both GNOME
and KDE were mentioned to consider this feature.
Ansgar
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