Colleagues, I have been considering the current push to replace init with systemd for all Linux systems.
systemd has been adopted by Fedora and openSuSE as the default init system - and to ensure it becomes the de facto standard, SysVInit has been deprecated to the extent it is now virtually unsupported by those distributions. To reinforce the necessity to convert to systemd udev source is now being offered as part of a package together with systemd source. Meanwhile, consolekit has disappeared to be replaced by systemd-loginctl. KDE build flags on Gentoo have traditionally been: consolekit udev policykit dbus As we all know d-bus provides userspace with a message bus system. This is not far removed from systemd in that systemd seeks to manage sockets and launch processes based on events communicated through the messaging system. udev creates devices on-the-fly and communicates these events using the message bus. Consequently I predicted that the necessity to bulld systemd together with udev will, in the next six months, become a necessity to build systemd, udev and d-bus as ONE ENTITY. At that point, systemd's coup-de-grace will be complete and to build KDE you will have to accept systemd as your default init system. In fact, to build virtually any Desktop machine you will have to accept systemd as your init system. Comments? Mike
