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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 22 2015, @08:40AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 22 2015, @08:40AM (#148036)

    Fedora won't abandon it, because RH needs it for its security wankery sales pits to the MIC.

    Fedora seems to always be on the forefront of adopting something "security" related, and/or pushing stuff that is related to same.

    Lately there have been a whole lot of RH people screaming, under the guise of Gnome or Wayland devs, "X11 IS NOT SECURE!!!".

    Fedora was also on the forefront of adopting SELinux, and it was a massive pain...

    And one would suspect that if one traced the lineage of Polkit etc it would lead back to someone on the RH payroll.

    But at the same time the Systemd guys manage to add a DNS "client" that is susceptible to cache poisoning. A issue as old as DNS caching, and has known techniques for avoiding...

    In essence Fedora is sticking with it because it is "their" project.

    Others on the other hand is likely adopting it, or adopted it, back when it was simply a init replacement. These days however it is so much "more". And has a stated goal of reworking the Linux "distro" (more like making them all march in lock step) from the ground up (cramming everything into /usr etc).