[arch-general] When will Arch switch to Systemd

[Heiko Baums]

Am Fri, 21 Jan 2011 10:30:53 +0100
schrieb Philipp Überbacher <hollunder at lavabit.com>:

> Now I know what avahi and PA does, and I don't have a user for either,
> yet they are there. I don't have the slightest idea what CK and PK
> does, they don't have any tangible benefit for me, yet they are there.
> I'm not sure whether systemd will fall into the former or later
> category, but I'd be really surprised if it had any real benefit for
> me Yet I'm sure to have it on my machine within a year or so.

Me, too.

I know that I have one or two entries in my Xfce menu for some avahi
stuff, but I really don't know what this is for. It was just there as a
dependency for another package.

The only thing which has changed since I'm forced to using CK and PK is
that I had to edit my .xinitrc and add a ck-launch-session, and that I
now have again another daemon running on my system for features I had
before, too, without these unnecessary, additional, resource eating
stuff, which makes in the best case my system slower. But something
doesn't work anymore without this CK and PK stuff. I currently can't
remember what that was.

The same with all those vfs daemons, which I really don't need and
don't know what they are for. Or udisks-daemon. Some time it was just
running on my system. I don't know why. I didn't start it by myself. I
could access all my disks and devices without it before.

Those developments are not always the best. And I'm really worried
about them.

I know, this is getting a bit off-topic. But it has to be said.

Heiko