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> Most don’t provide such a choice, because it’s a huge undertaking to basically package and maintain 2+ versions of everything Yes, I absolutely agree regardi
by zepearl 6y ago
> Most don’t provide such a choice, because it’s a huge undertaking to basically package and maintain 2+ versions of everything
Yes, I absolutely agree regarding the effort. (not sure about that vote - I honestly didn't follow that discussion)
In parallel, some software (cannot recall - maybe the Gnome window mgr) does rely (in its original form) on SystemD being there => I don't think that's fair, kind of forcing the distros that want to offer it to adopt it => I don't like it - I do see the advantage of having that kind of integration, but I still don't like it :P
- spiralx 6y agoGnome's dependency on logind came about because there originally was a dependency on a different library that one person had written, had pretty much stopped working on, and nobody wanted to take on maintaining it or adding it to Gnome itself. The dependency no longer exists because some people took logind from systemd, made it a standalone package and called it elogind lol, and now you can use that instead of logind.
- zepearl 6y agoAha! Now I understand why some time ago when I updated my Gentoo distro that elogind-package came up! I had some package conflicts because of that... (but I'm not using Gnome, I have just XFCE4 ). Thanks!