[ale] systemd or not

[Solomon Peachy]

On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 12:59:47PM -0400, James Sumners wrote:
> And I agree with you. GNOME 2 was the last one I liked, but I had long
> since switched to XFCE. But GNOME is the poster child example for showing
> how far systemd's tentacles reach.

...as opposed to GNOME needing to continue maintaining per-distribution 
(and per-distribution-release!) code to handle the complexity that
systemd completely abstracts away?

GNOME upstream supported Fedora and Debian's quirks, and Arch and 
OpenSUSE sorta barely.  Going forward, GNOME now supports *everything* 
that implements the logind api, which, incidentally, includes all of the 
above (and many more Linux distros, and if I believe news reports, 
before much longer, OpenBSD too)

The systemd suite is basically bundle of shared library code accessible 
via formalized, versioned DBus APIs.  Everyone downstream no longer has 
to continually reinvent the wheel (usually badly) to gain that 
functionality.

In any other context folks would be lauding this as a big step forward. 
Sheesh.

 - Solomon
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Solomon Peachy        		       pizza at shaftnet dot org
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