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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 arashi no garou on Saturday February 21 2015, @01:52AM

    by arashi no garou (2796) on Saturday February 21 2015, @01:52AM (#147666)

    It's my understanding that there was a split vote, some of the voters wanted more time to think about it, but some heavy pushing by LP and KS privately caused those requests to be ignored. The vote was rushed and the swing voter said what amounted to "fuck it, roll with it" and it was done.

    That's what I read back when it was going on, though I've heard from some (admittedly heavy systemd supporting) sources that it didn't go down like that, that it was a simple majority vote without drama and the perceived drama was manufactured by the anti-systemd camp. I find that hard to believe though, given the amount of controversy on both sides.

    Either way, I choose not to run systemd because of that very controversy; I don't need drama with my OS. Hell, my Raspberry Pi's OS has some systemd parts in it, it hasn't crashed and burned and sacrificed goats like some anti-systemd folks swear it will. But I'm looking forward to getting my new RasPi 2 next week that should be able to run Slackware without issues.

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