The KDE team seems to work on that too : http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=134052539215508&w=2
Now I understand why some devs are working hard to make Mdev working with OpenRC. They want to replace Udev/SystemD with Mdev/OpenRC and solve this situation. Sylvain aka d2_racing 2012/8/7 Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> > On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Peter Stuge <pe...@stuge.se> wrote: > > Yes, but if the upstream that is Gnome decides to start depending on > > systemd features then that's their decision, and the place to discuss > > if it's good or bad (more important, the place to change it!) would > > be within the Gnome project. > > More or less, but again my goal was not to start another discussion - > just to inform. Anybody inclined to comment on whether this is good > or bad should go look at the list archives and see if any of the 400 > messages in the last month already covered their points. > > > > > I guess Gentoo will always continue to offer the best of upstream. > > I don't think Gentoo has to limit itself to what upstream supports (I > don't think anybody would look at Prefix and say that this was what > any upstream had in mind). However, the bottom line is that to do > something exotic takes effort, so nothing will happen unless somebody > makes it happen. > > > > > OTOH, if upstream goes and make some change that means a regression > > for Gentoo users, then they deserve bug report floods from their users! > :) > > Perhaps, but don't count on it going anywhere. With Gnome 3 they must > already have pretty thick skin. I suspect upstream would say that if > you want a smooth desktop experience you shouldn't be running Gentoo. > To some degree they probably even have a valid point. Gentoo is about > more than a just-works desktop so I think the best we'll be able to > offer is a "reasonable" experience. If things get really integrated > you might see some Sabayon-like forks favoring particular DEs/etc, and > as long as those forks contribute to our main tree I think that is > good for all of us. > > Rich > > -- Salut alp Sylvain
