Re: Requiring systemd for the gnome-settings-daemon power plugin

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Fri, 2012-10-19 at 15:05 +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> Le 19/10/2012 11:00, Bastien Nocera a écrit :
> > I intend on making systemd a hard requirement
> Hey Bastien,
> 
> Was there any consideration to define those interface as "standard 
> freedesktop interfaces" to let GNOME work on any system implementing 
> those? Some distributions (Debian, Ubuntu, ...) don't use nor plan to 
> use systemd, your decision basically means those options for those 
> distributions:
> - keep the current version of gnome-settings-daemon
> - distro patch/fork g-s-d to keep supporting non systemd systems
> - stop shipping GNOME
> 
> Which one do you envision distributions opting for there?

I don't see non-systemd Linux distributions as being different from
OpenBSD, or other Unix systems.

If you want to provide compatible interfaces to systemd without using
systemd, then you'll need to engage with the systemd developers to make
sure that APIs are suitable for your implementation. I don't plan on
doing that work, as it would just use up the time I'd freed up by not
having to maintain 2 separate versions of the power plugin and session
tracking code.

Cheers