Thanks Pierre, I will try to install it on my machine after I get the errata installed.
Chris On Thu, Jan 2, 2020 at 11:24 AM Pierre Labastie via blfs-support <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
