Re: Bits from the Release Team: Architecture health check
On 19/02/2014 16:45, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Robert Millan <rmh@debian.org> (2014-02-19):
>> After some discussion we've reached the following position statement, which
>> has the approval of Steven, Petr and myself:
>>
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> It is with much regret that we observe that GDM has grown hard dependencies
>> on a Linux-specific component (systemd). Although GDM still offers the
>> possibility of running it using ConsoleKit, this codepath is no longer
>> supported by upstream, and ConsoleKit itself is considered deprecated
>> software and has been abandoned by its developers.
>>
>> Furthermore, we observe that the GNOME UI has grown hard dependencies on GDM,
>> as well as other developments which make it impractical to run GNOME on
>> kernels other than Linux. Our understanding is that GNOME release managers don't
>> see this as a problem and are not actively trying to resolve this.
>>
>> In this situation we do not think it's reasonably practical for us to continue
>> providing assistance to ensure portability of the GNOME desktop on GNU/kFreeBSD.
>>
>> When it comes to individual applications, we'd like to support as many of
>> them as possible. As long as they are still intended to be portable by
>> their upstream developers, and that they don't have any hard dependency
>> on the GNOME desktop itself (i.e., they can be run as standalone apps), we
>> intend to continue providing porting assistance for them.
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>
> I thought this might be of some interest:
> http://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2014/02/19/on-portability/
Skillful talk and some screenshots may be useful to persuade people, but alas, it
has no effect whatsoever on the actual problem.
--
Robert Millan
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