Re:Red Hat Goes Full IBM and Says Farewell to CentOS
by cycloptic on Saturday December 12, 2020 @08:38PM
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Which packages had a hard systemd/logind requirement upstream? As far as I understand it, GNOME still gets upstream patches from BSD developers and is still supported there. (Some Debian packages do have hard dependencies on systemd, but this is a downstream packaging issue)
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Re:Red Hat Goes Full IBM and Says Farewell to CentOS
by jasonjayr on Saturday December 12, 2020 @10:19PM
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I don't want to leave my hearsay uncited, but try here:
https://blogs.gnome.org/ovitters/2013/09/25/gnome-and-logind...
Slightly more recently:
https://digitizor.com/gnome-linux-only/
This was an eternity ago in internet time, and I'm not all up and up on BSD development, but maybe enough folks are keeping it going on BSD nowadays?
Re:Red Hat Goes Full IBM and Says Farewell to CentOS
by cycloptic on Saturday December 12, 2020 @11:12PM
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Interesting, I checked and the only upstream component of GNOME I could find that requires systemd and doesn't have a compile flag for it is gdm. This isn't required to start GNOME (you can use any other display manager) and FreeBSD/OpenBSD seem to be maintaining consolekit patches for it downstream. So I see why there is little incentive to fix this upstream. (On non-systemd Linux distros the focus has shifted to staying compatible with elogind, but that doesn't work on BSD)