On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 04:19:26PM -0700, Greg KH wrote > On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 09:40:00PM +0100, Mike Auty wrote: > > On 08/08/13 11:38, Samuli Suominen wrote: > > > i'm not volunteering but I never really got why our GNOME > > > maintainers insisted on staying with it instead of going with the > > > distribution after it was clear logind is a dead end on non-systemd > > > systemd > > > > Ok, > > > > So there's lots of people that don't want systemd. Can't we group > > together and have some kind of an affect on upstream? > > Become upstream developers and create fixes to remove the dependancy > either by working on openrc features to emulate the same things that > systemd has that GNOME requires, or split things out of GNOME so that it > does not require systemd dependencies. > > But to complain to upstream without providing patches is a bit futile, > don't you think? That's not how open source projects work, we all know > that. > > greg k-h > >
-- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
