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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: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 20 2015, @03:01PM
Well, there's slack, slack, systemd, slack and slack. That's not got much systemd in it.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 20 2015, @03:44PM
It's not got much anything else in it either, which is why it's not a drop-in replacement for the people using something like Ubuntu.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Foobar Bazbot on Friday February 20 2015, @04:47PM
... [slackware]'s not a drop-in replacement for the people using something like Ubuntu.
Of course not, slackware's a whole Linux distribution. All you need to replace the people using something like Ubuntu is a very small shell script.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by arashi no garou on Friday February 20 2015, @07:12PM
Trollololol.
While Ubuntu's Software Center locks up and greys out your screen when it tries to install the 600MiB of deps for a 500KiB app you wanted, I'll be using installpkg to install just exactly what I need and no more. It's called being lean, and it's not a bad concept. ;-)
(Score: 3, Funny) by DECbot on Friday February 20 2015, @09:23PM
It's called being lean, and it's not a bad concept.
I'm big boned you insensitive clod!
--Signed: systmed.deb
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base
(Score: 2) by Ryuugami on Friday February 20 2015, @10:38PM
--Signed: systmed.deb
Oh god, it's self aware!
If a shit storm's on the horizon, it's good to know far enough ahead you can at least bring along an umbrella. - D.Weber
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 20 2015, @11:31PM
*WHOOSH*
(Score: 2) by Magic Oddball on Saturday February 21 2015, @06:02AM
PCLinuxOS [pclinuxos.com] is a good drop-in replacement for regular users (I ditched 'buntu 5 years ago during the "we want window buttons on the left and we don't care what users want/need so STFU" debacle), as I thankfully learned in December. It was a huge relief to be able to trust my computer to stay up & fully-functional for more than a day or two at a time, which was the best I could manage under any of the systemd distros (including before I realized the newly-installed systemd was the reason my laptop had turned so unstable).
I looked into Slackware, but like Gentoo, it's a distro for people that want to spend their time delving into the nitty-gritty levels of Linux, not for those of us that think Linux makes a wonderfully flexible, fast, user-controllable OS that we can use while focusing on entirely unrelated tasks. :-)
(Score: 3, Funny) by nightsky30 on Friday February 20 2015, @05:55PM
I DON'T LIKE SYSTEMD!!!
Queue the vikings...