On Sat, Feb 01, 2014 at 01:21:19PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org> writes: > > > It should be completely trivial to introduce a virtual > > "org-freedesktop-login1" package (modulo any complexities introduced by > > interface versioning for new methods added to that interface). However, > > it also seems pointless until there's a prospective provider of that > > interface. Do you have a package ready to provide that interface such > > that GNOME can depend on it? I've seen no signs that the GNOME > > maintainers would refuse to allow alternative providers of those > > interfaces once they exist, just refusals to do any work in that > > direction until those alternatives *do* exist, which seems entirely > > reasonable. > > Note that I don't think it makes sense for Steve to work on such a package > right now for exactly the same reason that I don't think it makes sense to > start adding virtual packages right now, or figuring out the dependency > structure in GNOME for non-systemd logind right now. Personally, I > wouldn't want to work on any of those things until some of the currently > extremely large probability space collapses.
I agree entirely; I was simply indicating (in other parts of my previous mail) that in the absence of a package ready to provide org-freedesktop-login1, a dependency (indirect or direct) on systemd's logind or org-freedesktop-login1 would reduce to a dependency on systemd as PID 1. - Josh Triplett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20140201214942.GB13928@leaf
