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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: 3, Informative) by tangomargarine on Friday February 20 2015, @11:03PM

    by tangomargarine (667) on Friday February 20 2015, @11:03PM (#147643)

    "Everyone else voted against him" is a lie. The 8-person vote was 4 in favor of systemd as their first choice and 4 in favor of the other alternatives. And IIRC the only reason systemd won that vote was because the guy who "broke ties" (whatever you call it when you have a plurality but a majority is required) was in the systemd voting block.

    Go look up the original Slashdot/Soylent articles on the vote. I swear Debian made their voting system as hard to understand as possible.

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  • (Score: 1, Troll) by Grishnakh on Friday February 27 2015, @08:25PM

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Friday February 27 2015, @08:25PM (#150696)

    It's not their fault you're too dumb to understand Condorcet voting, or any kind of voting system where you're allowed to vote for your preference for candidates.