Le 02/01/2020 à 15:44, Chris Gorman via blfs-support a écrit : > Hello All, > > I wanted to ask a possibly silly question. (Since there is an entire > section of the BLFS book dedicated to this.) I have read on the > internet that gnome requires systemd. I have a sysvinit machine and > wanted to make sure I could run the desktop before spending the time > building it. So is it possible to run gnome from a sysvinit machine? > > Thanks in advance. >
Short answer: yes. I do it on my development machine. Expanding a bit: - gnome requires the org.freedesktop.login1 d-bus protocol from systemd. This is provided by the elogind package for non systemd machines. - gnome-shell uses the org.freedesktop.locale1 d-bus protocol from systemd for localization. If you have an us keyboard, you do not really need that, but you may lose some functionality. The protocol is provided by the blocaled package for non systemd machines. - gnome-session and others may use the org.freedesktop.system1 d-bus protocol from systemd, but fallback to more traditional methods. So this one is not really needed. - gnome-logs needs journald from systemd, so we do not build it in the sysv version of the book. This is the only noticeable missing bit. Pierre -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
