Re:Systemd, 10 years later (2020)
by awrmc on Sunday January 09, 2022 @02:55PM
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>I heard that Gnome is dependent on systemd now.
Under some circumstances (not all), GNOME has a dependency on logind. If you're in one of those circumstances, you can use elogind as a drop-in replacement. That's far from having a dependency on systemd.
>Main purpose of both overengineered projects is to tie users to vendor's services (snapcraft, flathub, e.t.c.). Both package managers deprive me of control over my system.
Under some circumstances (not all), GNOME has a dependency on logind. If you're in one of those circumstances, you can use elogind as a drop-in replacement. That's far from having a dependency on systemd.
>Main purpose of both overengineered projects is to tie users to vendor's services (snapcraft, flathub, e.t.c.). Both package managers deprive me of control over my system.
I don't think snap lets you deploy your own repository, but for Flatpak this is very very wrong. Check here: https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/hosting-a-repository.html