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KDE Will Depend on 'logind' and 'timedated' in 6 Months

posted by janrinok on Friday February 20 2015, @01:18PM   Printer-friendly
from the and-perhaps-it-will-work dept.

jbernardo writes:

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.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by arashi no garou on Friday February 20 2015, @07:04PM

    by arashi no garou (2796) on Friday February 20 2015, @07:04PM (#147521)

    Don't forget "Offtopic"; I've seen a few posts modded as such that were topical. I can only imagine it was someone who meant to hit that "Disagree" button and suddenly slipped...

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  • (Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Friday February 20 2015, @10:05PM

    by hemocyanin (186) on Friday February 20 2015, @10:05PM (#147620) Journal

    Downmodders like to see the score go down. Disagree is a fail in that regard.

    • (Score: 2) by arashi no garou on Saturday February 21 2015, @01:55AM

      by arashi no garou (2796) on Saturday February 21 2015, @01:55AM (#147667)

      That's the joke...

    • (Score: 2) by moondrake on Saturday February 21 2015, @09:21AM

      by moondrake (2658) on Saturday February 21 2015, @09:21AM (#147721)

      Well, it does not make much sense to mod comments disagree when they contain a logical fallacy. Or when they ask questions that have been answered in the FA.

      I would be happy if we had a 0 mod to point out such cases.