Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

[Matthias Urlichs <matthias@urlichs.de>]

Hi,

Martin Steigerwald:
> > Desktops (not only GNOME) use a very tiny bit of systemd, interfaces
> > that could be provided elsewhere. The real purpose of systemd is to
> > provide a modern init system.
> 
> I still wonder why there are provided within systemd then.
> 
Yes, the logind-related parte _could_ be provided elsewhere, but part of
the features logind needs is already implemented in systemd. So using that
instead of rolling your own from scratch is simply common sense.

A second implementation also would require coordination between systemd and
whatever, therefore requiring yet more code. More man-hours to write and
debug.

NB: s/there/they/.

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-- Matthias Urlichs