Jonathan Dowland wrote:
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:42:58PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
They were using ConsoleKit, which was orphaned upstream some time
after systemd-logind came along.
I rest my case.
There's nothing at all (not even Red Hat) preventing anyone (even you!) from
stepping up and taking over development of ConsoleKit. It's a considerably
smaller proposition than taking over GNOME 2, a vastly more complex suite of
software and libraries, and that actually did happen
(<http://mate-desktop.org>).
In theory. But in practice, folks make practical decisions as to
expenditure of time and resources. For example, once Debian committed
to systemd, Ubuntu followed suit - I expect that upstart will promptly
whither and die.
Whether a conspiracy or not, decisions by big players (in this case the
Debian TC), can have serious and widespread impacts.
Miles Fidelman
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
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