Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 11:54:11PM +0100, Andrew Shadura wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Jan 2014 19:17:29 +0100
> Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> wrote:
>
> > Gnome-shell uses GDM for screen locking, and GDM heavily relies on
> > logind nowadays. There is fallback code that uses ConsoleKit, but it
> > has been untested for several major releases, and now fails even for
> > trivial things. Add to that the fact that ConsoleKit itself has been
> > unmaintained for quite some time, making it unsuitable for a new
> > stable release that needs maintenance for several more years
>
> That only confirms the fact GNOME developers can't even keep their code
> working, not even speaking about testing its interoperability with
> most common environments. That doesn't create a good reputation, you
> know.
Almost all of our developers are either using systemd, or they're using
something which provides logind (Ubuntu). Even Gentoo has started
depending on systemd (thus logind, etc) for GNOME.
In short: for the most common environment, GNOME is damn stable and very
well tested.
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Regards,
Olav
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