[arch-general] kde and systemd [was Re: [arch-dev-public] merging systemd back to a singular package]

[Joakim Hernberg]

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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   Joakim Hernberg