Sergey B Kirpichev <skirpic...@gmail.com> writes: > Are X-people indeed sacrifice portability, or there is something > different (e.g. these dependencies are optional)?
Speaking as the X server release manager, the systemd patches exist solely to provide for interoperation with systemd or other similar device management processes. None of them eliminate existing device management infrastructure at all. In effect, X takes the Debian position that patches which improve interoperabilty with a specific init system should be integrated. X is most definitely not going to ever require systemd. I think that any package which requires a specific init system is broken and I'd work to fix any that I depended on. > Where is the list of problems for sysvinit we intend to solve? For X, the problem is running X as a user other than root, which should provide for increased system security as we'll be reducing the amount of root code substantially. Using the systemd mechanisms for sending new input devices to the X server solves one of the longstanding issues with non-root X. -- keith.pack...@intel.com
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