Re: systemd effectively mandatory now
This is a move to SABOTAGE linux as an OS.
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Mark
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 10:30:41PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Well I hope this doesn't turn into some kind of flame war... about
> systemd, GNOME or similar.
>
>
> In sid, gnome-settings-daemon depends now on systemd.
>
> I wouldn't have any issues with that, but at least right now systemd is
> for me not yet production ready (it seems to miss proper dm-crypt
> integration - or at least all those use cases where dm-crypt makes sense
> at all).
>
> Of course I can install the package but don't have to switch init= to
> it, nevertheless it seems that already this alone adds several things
> (udev rules, dbus stuff and some things in the maintainer scripts) that
> *will* get enabled.
>
> I've opened #726675, asking the GNOME developers what they think about
> this, but the only answer so far is basically "GNOME now depends on
> systemd".
> I personally think this is a design problem of GNOME upstream and we
> have previously seen that GNOME upstream forces their "blessings" upon
> their users - anyway... probably not something we can change from Debian
> side.
>
>
> So I guess the question is mainly,... what's the policy from Debian side
> now with such cases?
> And does anyone know whether it causes "hurt" to just install the
> package without using it?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Chris.
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