Debian votes for Proposal B, “Systemd but we support exploring alternatives”

Re:Debian votes for Proposal B, “Systemd but we support expl... by majewsky on Saturday December 28, 2019 @12:52PM (#21900393)

> If your package relies on other systemd capabilities

Such as? Which other "systemd capability" besides the init system part exposes an API to general user-space applications? The only one I can think of is logind, for which an alternative implementation (elogind) exists.

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Re:Debian votes for Proposal B, “Systemd but we support expl... by Null-Set on Saturday December 28, 2019 @01:12PM (#21900545)

Logging, login, network configuration, and more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemd#Ancillary_components

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Re:Debian votes for Proposal B, “Systemd but we support expl... by majewsky on Saturday December 28, 2019 @01:53PM (#21900845)

These are not APIs, they are UIs. They will not cause vendor lock-in for general user-space applications.

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