First of all: thanks a lot to Olav for engaging in that debate! I couldn't
have done it...  and I pretty much agree with the position you formulated:
we should be open to reasonable patches that make things work better on
whatever platform people want to try GNOME on. And we should be very happy
that people want to try GNOME on those platforms. The shape of those
patches can vary from case to case: could be reduced functionality,
alternative backends, or a shim that puts systemd-lookalike interfaces in
place. Expecting us to write all of those as a prerequisite for being
'allowed' into Debian is a non-starter.

Second: Its probably worth pointing out that Ryan has done a lot of work
recently to make GNOME work better on freebsd - we're getting (or already
have ?) a jhbuild-based autobuilder in place. And here:
http://i.imgur.com/DeP6r1U.png is a screenshot of GNOME running on freebsd
in a vm.

Matthias
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