On 10 October 2014 10:27, Trent W. Buck <[email protected]> wrote: > Russell Coker <[email protected]> writes: > > > What does Gnome do that is so hard to port to non-systemd? > > IIRC, at least initially, the feature that had a hard requirement on > systemd was serving multiple independent, concurrent user sessions > (keyboard/video/mouse) from a single workstation.
My understanding is it isn't so much "hard", but somebody has to write the interfaces to work without systemd. I believe this is the point of the systemd-shim package in Debian: https://packages.debian.org/sid/systemd-shim Sometimes people have a misconception that this is part of systemd due to the name; it isn't. It is the reimplementation of the interfaces systemd provides without using systemd. In the past, IIRC, it has suffered from neglect; I assume it is ok now though (I don't care, I intend to use systemd). My understanding is when people have complained that package XYZ requires systemd, it is often because systemd-shim needs more work - e.g. it doesn't implement all the required interfaces. -- Brian May <[email protected]>
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