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Systemd was a child of Redhat. Debian had to support it, mostly because at the time Gnome, another Redhat controlled project, decided to depend upon systemd.
by b112 4y ago
Systemd was a child of Redhat.
Debian had to support it, mostly because at the time Gnome, another Redhat controlled project, decided to depend upon systemd.
- einpoklum 4y ago1. Supporting it is not the same as mandating it (which it effectively has) 2. You're saying that Debian made this choice because of a choice by GNOME. But - was GNOME strong-armed by commercial interests? 3. AFAIK, The dependence of GNOME on systemd was broken quite easily (IIANM mostly by using a forked elogind).
- b112 4y agoGnome was at the time defacto controlled by redhat. Regardless of now, at the time, there was no alternative such as elogind.