On Thu, 26 Mar 2020 22:08:52 +0100 (CET) Peter Koellner <pe...@asgalon.net> wrote:
> Just a side note to add some outlying viewpoint: I changed from > debian to devuan a year ago specifically to get rid of systemd. The > reason for this was more of a philosophical than technical nature. I > also tried some bsd flavours a short time ago which had some driver > related problems of their own on the laptop, and of course systemd > does not exist there either because it is not a unix standard but > linux-specific. So in my opinion it is perfectly fine to offer > systemd support as an option, but making it a prerequisite would > narrow users choices. I have not been able to build a current version > of enlightenment for a long time now for other dependency problems > and the available packages are outdated and not really suited for > production use for my work environment, so for now I have switched to > devuan with xfce, keeping terminology as my standard terminal. I am > leasurely monitoring the situation and do make a few tests from time > to time to see where to go next. > > regards > Peter > > Hello, Currently using enlightenment on Gentoo without systemd. This is what I currently have installed along with use flags. emerge -vp efl These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] dev-libs/efl-1.23.3::gentoo USE="X dds drm eet examples fbcon fontconfig gif gles2 glib gnutls gstreamer harfbuzz hyphen ibus jpeg2k libressl luajit nls pdf pulseaudio scim sdl sound ssl svg system-lz4 tga tiff webp xcf xim xine xpm -bmp -connman -debug -doc -elogind -fribidi -ico -json -lua -mono -opengl -physics -pmaps -postscript -psd -raw -static-libs -systemd -tgv -tslib -unwind -v4l -vlc -vnc -wayland -xpresent -zeroconf" 0 KiB emerge -vp enlightenment These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] x11-wm/enlightenment-0.23.1:0.17/0.23.1::gentoo USE="acpi bluetooth nls pam udisks -connman -doc -geolocation (-packagekit) -systemd -wayland -wifi -xwayland" 0 KiB NO systemd but using openrc and xorg-server. Have not come across any problems and finding it very stable. You may require a particular usage as I'm just a desktop user. Note - I have tried wayland session but never got this to work so still using xorg. I guess this is where systemd comes in. Perhaps. My knowledge of this is not good. John _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
