Re: Init system deba{te|cle}
On Wed, 2013-10-30 at 14:22 +0000, Tom H wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 8:55 PM, John <JohnRChamplin@wowway.com> wrote:
> >
> > Could someone who has been following the giant fuss on -devel over
> > init systems explain why there's such a sense of dire urgency?
> >
> > Is it provoked by systemd's effort to be adopted having at least found
> > a home with gnome, made urgent by gnome's status as our default?
>
> Although this isn't the first debian-devel systemd-slugfest, there's
> more of a sense of urgency and finality this time because GNOME 3.8
> depends on logind, and, other than on Ubuntu for systemd <=204, that
> means that GNOME 3.8 depends on systemd-as-pid-1.
>
>
And does one really needs Gnome? Based on the level of user
dissatisfaction I'd say Gnome shouldn't interfere with boot process.
Especially one that tries to bundle everything... maybe gnome-devs are
trying hard to address smarts, tablets and gadgets only?
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André N. Batista
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