[arch-general] kde and systemd [was Re: [arch-dev-public] merging systemd back to a singular package]
Joakim Hernberg
jbh at alchemy.lu
Tue Aug 28 02:55:06 EDT 2012
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 07:46:30 +0530
Shridhar Daithankar <ghodechhap at ghodechhap.net> wrote:
> On Monday 27 Aug 2012 11:30:46 AM Joakim Hernberg wrote:
> > On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 10:48:32 +0200
> >
> > Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
> > > But this only concerns the booting itself. As consolekit is
> > > unmaintained, polkit will soon depend on systemd. The next Gnome
> > > version will require systemd - more to come.
> >
> > I don't run gnome, but kde is just as bad in this case :(
>
> care to elaborate?
>
> I have always used KDE. Now I am using it with systemd but AFAIK it
> does not mandate anything systemd specific.
>
> GNOME OTOH forces you to use pulseaudio :
$ pacman -Qi shows me that kdebase-workspace depends on consolekit,
which in turn depends on polkit. The above comment seems to suggest
that kde will soon depend on systemd. But who knows, I can imagine
that there are so many old time linux users that would hate installing
something like systemd even if they use kde as DE. With a bit of luck
someone willl step up and maintain an alternative to consolekit/polkit
that doesn't require systemd.
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Joakim
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