On 29/01/14 22:50, Russ Allbery wrote: > Per Josselin's latest discussion of this, there doesn't appear to be any > direct GNOME dependencies on systemd itself that would be blocking for > jessie.
Sorry, I got completely the opposite impression from this tonight: On 29/01/14 17:41, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mercredi 29 janvier 2014 à 19:03 +0200, Adrian Bunk a écrit : >>> > > No, you are not. There are several features in systemd that GNOME uses. >>> > > One of them is user sessions, for which there will indeed be a fallback >>> > > in place. But it is not the only one. >> > >> > Can you provide a list of features without a fallback in place? > > At least logind, timedated, hostnamed, localed, the boot control > interfaces. With a very widespread level of failure depending on the > unavailable interface. > >> > Assuming jessie will support multiple init systems, why would GNOME need >> > a dependency on systemd? > > Because it needs logind. > https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2014/01/msg00360.html So, even having an adequate logind substitute, GNOME is expected to be considerably impaired without systemd? Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain [email protected] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]

