Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME
Brian May <brian <at> microcomaustralia.com.au> writes:
> This looks like the dependency is kernel/platform dependant:
>
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> http://packages.debian.org/sid/gnome-settings-daemon has:
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> dep: systemd [not hppa, hurd-i386, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, m68k,
powerpcspe, sh4, sparc64]
That’s just because e.g. m68k hasn’t built that new package yet.
Look at the versions.
I wonder what will happen on kernels without cgroups support…
but anyway, yes, please split the package. If those services
really depend on the systemd _binary_, split between systemd
(containing only the magic needed to make it init) and another
package, say systemd-binaries, containing the rest.
If, on the other hand, those services the g-s-d needs cannot
work any more when systemd is not the init system used, then
I’d rather see gnome be removed from Debian. This is inacceptable.
bye,
//mirabilos
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