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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 moondrake on Saturday February 21 2015, @08:58PM

    by moondrake (2658) on Saturday February 21 2015, @08:58PM (#147890)

    I disagree. He did not read the article at the time of that first post. The answer to his question was in the FA. I pointed out that he should not have been modded up and had no way to correct it in a sensible way.

    That comment was offtopic perhaps, but not totally without merit imho. I do not think calling his comment somewhat silly is condescending. I think it is a quite nice description for posting without reading what the story is about. My somewhat offtopic point was about the moderation and since I could not downmod, I could at least point out the post was not relevant for a sound discussion of the article. Moreover I raised the question of whether we do not need some mod system for this type of situation.

    You on the other hand, did not read or understand the article, and posted a moronic reply (this is condescending yes, but by now I think you deserve it). Instead of silently ignoring my reply and not make matters worse for both of us, you resort to trolling (i.e. first you call me out to answer the question, then later argue my post was irrelevant to begin with). Discussion is over.

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday February 21 2015, @09:10PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Saturday February 21 2015, @09:10PM (#147894) Journal
    In other words, you're going to double down on this idiocy. I don't care.

    I suggest the following two step approach:

    1) Apologize.
    2) STFU, unless you have something useful to say.

    Now, having said that, I think it's time to take my own advice.