Earlier this week, KDE developer David Edmundson described in his blog how KDE would be tied to logind and timedated but not systemd itself, at least according to his claim that "The init system is one part of systemd that doesn't affect us at all, and any other could be used.".
Later, in the blog comments, he clarifies that starting with plasma 5.5, in 6 months, they'll drop "legacy" support, according to a decision taken in the plasma sprint.
Even if one can only guess why there is no formal announcement, it seems clear - unless somehow there is a shim or emulator, not only for logind but also for timedated, in 6 months KDE will be unusable unless you are running systemd. And the blog entry makes it clear that the plan is to remove more and more functionality from KDE and use systemd instead.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by digitalaudiorock on Friday February 20 2015, @02:53PM
Exactly...like trying to run Windows without svchost.exe...which is actually a good analogy, because frankly using systemd is very much like running Windows and it's bloated svchost crap...binary Windows-fucking-event-log etc etc etc. I can't believe the open source community hasn't just flat out rejected it because of those phony dependencies alone. They're all clearly malicious...our way or the highway.
BTW...why does everyone suddenly start posting anonymously whenever systemd comes up? Does LP have like mob ties I don't know about? I'm not afraid to say how much I think it sucks...that's for sure.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 20 2015, @10:42PM
Choosing to not have an account when it is not necessary correlates highly with GNU philosophy. Likewise, sockpuppets and friends always post with accounts to appear credible.
(Score: 2) by digitalaudiorock on Saturday February 21 2015, @01:32AM
Wow...way to contribute to the discussion. I'll let other "sock puppets" weigh in on your bit of wisdom there.