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Some complex applications are starting to require systemd components. So yes, portability may become important to the BSDs.
by jmclnx 3y ago
Some complex applications are starting to require systemd components. So yes, portability may become important to the BSDs.
- Gud 3y agoWhich applications?
- bmacho 3y agoGNOME since more than 10 years
- bandrami 3y agoGnome runs on OpenBSD so it clearly doesn't "require" systemd
- navi-desu 3y agognome hard depends on systemd, so much that for it, *bsd (and any non-systemd unix-like) had to write a systemd-shim to emulate some functions of it, and/or gut some of systemd's components such as logind in to elogind
- bandrami 3y agoNot for a while now; accountsservice runs fine with cosolekit. I still don't understand why the broader Linux ecosystem burned the better part of a decade on the long-solved problem of "who is logged in to this TTY?", but whatever floats their boat...