> On 27/03/13 at 11:27am, »Q« wrote: > > Eventually, as I understand it, GNOME and KDE will require systemd > > because they want full control of they system. For people not using > > GNOME or KDE, other init systems will still be possible, with either > > udev or a udev alternative. I have no idea how far away "eventually" > > will be. > > GNOME maybe/probably, but regarding KDE what makes you say this ? > I don't recall reading anything about this (this one comes to mind but > its got nothing to do with systemd [1]. The author explains in the > comments why he chose not to use systemd). KDE always prides itself in > being cross platform forcing systemd would be terribly detrimental. > > [1] http://dantti.wordpress.com/2013/02/27/1-2-3-plasma/
Actually it came up not too long ago that a commit was making Gnome Linux only and I believe it was decided not to be the way to Go. -- _______________________________________________________________________ 'Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface' (Doug McIlroy) _______________________________________________________________________