[arch-general] Arch Linux and systemd

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Tue, 2012-08-28 at 16:43 +0530, Jayesh Badwaik wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 Aug 2012 11:16:38 Kevin Chadwick wrote:
> > You know why, because according to heise some of their longterm devs
> > have left leaving more than half the devs being RedHat employees.
> > 
> > p.s. I have nothing against RedHat, I value they're work, mostly the
> > work which goes unnoticed. Unfortunately the most prominent of
> they're
> > work gets a bad rep or is it more prominent because of the rep? I
> > think both because it often has a bad user experience and
> > interaction factor.
> 
> In this context, I had shared a link where systemd devs had suggested 
> gnome devs to consider adding systemd as a dependency due to some
> funcitonality which was present in systemd only. [1]
> 
> What is going on I am not sure, but this shows that GNOME in future
> is 
> going to have a hard dependency on systemd. 
>  
> [1]
> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2011-May/msg00427.html

If somebody doesn't want to use systemd, IMO it's easy to quit GNOME. I
don't think that gcalctool and other small apps will have a dependency
chain, as well as GTK. Or could it become that extreme? Sorry for the
noob question, Ralf