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

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: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 20 2015, @07:22PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 20 2015, @07:22PM (#147531)

    Did you learn from your experience and turn down your anti-systemd hyperbole level, or are you just going to keep blundering ahead with lies, even after falling on your face?

    One thing becomes more and more clear as more software takes these decisions: The people in the "loud pundit" class have different views of systemd than the people actually in the positions to make technical decisions. And members of the "loud pundit" social category value each others pejoratives more highly than the technical points of the people actually in possession of knowledge of the details. What really blows the doors off is that they defend SysV init as some sort of holy cow. Uhm, yeah. If they're not embarrassed the first time they say it, they're probably never going to go into the technical details far enough to even understand the decisions.

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