On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 09:02:24PM +0000, Wols Lists wrote > On 10/12/17 10:13, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > I've no idea how good systemd is. It's not been through the normal > > process of choice and selection that other successful packages have. > > It was forced on people. But being forced to have a binary system log, > > being forced (so I have heard) to have an http server running, ...., > > doesn't make it an attractive package for me. > > Oddly enough, although the details are different, that passage I've > quoted pretty accurately describes how I feel about Gnome ... :-)
I can't find it right now on Google, but I vaguely remember that Lennart asked the Gnome people to make systemd a hard dependancy. Not much later logind, which is required by Gnome, picks up systemd as a hard dependancy. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
