On Fri, 20.01.12 08:47, Ryan Lortie ([email protected]) wrote: > > hi Bastien, > > On Fri, 2012-01-20 at 12:36 +0000, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > No, the distributions/systems that choose not to use systemd will have > > to provide a compatible D-Bus service. > > This is what I guessed you'd say. > > > It can be something "extracted" from systemd, or something new and > > revived from the old date and time mechanism, but it won't be something > > we support and maintain in gnome-settings-daemon. > > > And I'm glad I have 3000 less lines code to maintain. > > I'm just a little bit concerned about how this looks. I love when we > can delete code, but we're doing it by disabling a previously-working > feature for a portion of our users. > > If we introduced new optional features that depended on a particular > systemd functionality in order to operate, it would be one thing. We do > that often. This change is a regression of existing functionality in > the name of "I don't feel like maintaining it anymore". > > I'd also feel a bit better if I thought you had made efforts to get in > touch with those that would be affected by this regression. Ubuntu > isn't shipping GNOME 3.4 g-s-d/g-c-c, this cycle, for example, but for > the last week I've been trying to convince them that they should. If I > had succeeded (which I am now glad I didn't) then this change would have > been a royal pain, creating a whole lot of new work to fit into an > already full schedule. > > Many of our own end-users will still want to install GNOME 3.4 onto > their Ubuntu systems (myself included). I look forward to the mention > in our release notes about how they can no longer change their time > because we wanted to delete a bit of code.
Note that The Ubuntu folks have been well aware of all of this coming. How I know that? Because at their last UDS they scheduled a session about rewriting those mechanisms for Ubuntu, and they even have a project page up on launchpad: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-p-systemd-packagekit Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
