On 25/02/2014 14:40, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2014-02-24 4:48 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés <can...@gmail.com> wrote: >> In Gentoo you need systemd, but that's a decision from the Gentoo >> maintainers. They do the job, they make the choices. > > Interesting. Now I have to spin off a new thread as to why this decision > was made if it isn't forced by GNOME itself... > > >
Gnome uses logind, Canek has consistently stated that for months now. logind is part of systemd (AIUI it's more "bundled" than "a chunk of a monolothic lump") and replaces consolekit. The feature set of logind can be implemented in something else. Or, that functionality in previous Gnome versions forward-ported to 3.10 to be able to drop logind as a dep. OpenBSD would have had little choice in this as systemd doesn't run on OpenBSD - systemd uses many features unique to the Linux kernel. So they would have had to do *something* about logind. Whatever they did, it would have been a non-trivial amount of work. I suspect the Gentoo Gnome maintainers were not prepared to, or don't have the manpower, to do the same on Gentoo so took the easier route of depending on systemd. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
