Quoting Adam Borowski (kilob...@angband.pl): > While I heartily agree with you about GNOME itself, there's too much > software that uses gnome libs to allow such a move without having to patch > hundreds if not thousands of packages.
Last time I checked, the GNOME libs required by 90%+ of those hundreds if not thousands of packages didn't have dependency chain resolving to systemd-logind or replacements thereof. gnumeric didn't, Evince did't, Dia did't, Shotwell didn't, Brasero didn't, GNOME Terminal didn't -- not even Evolution did. What does? The gnome-core package, which isn't a requirement of those 90%+ of GNOME applications. gnome-disk-utility, ditto. gnome-settings-daemon, network-manager, modem-manager-gui, gnome-system-tools, gnome-music, gnome-shell, gnome-disk-utility, and the 'gnome' kitchen-sink metapackage. Stuff like that -- GNOME-specific glue code pieces required to run the GNOME core as opposed to GNOME apps. But those are not to be confused with 90%+ of those hundreds if not thousands of packages, of which you speak. > Thus, logind needs to be at least emulated. I have no objection to systemd-logind being emulated. I merely think it's a mistake if anyone deems those emulations essential. They're a brittle crutch to software that IMO ought to be deemed non-essential, > joeyh resigned right after his decision to switch to XFCE got overridden > this way. I didn't know that, but that makes sense. That was a colossal blunder. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
