Re: gnome-3.16.x without systemd

[Stephen Allen <marathon durandal gmail com>]

On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 07:32:15PM +0400, John Frankish wrote:
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > To: gnome-shell-list gnome org
> > > > > Subject: Re: gnome-3.16.x without systemd
> > > > >
> > > > > 2. systemd-shim (limited support for some of the systemd apis)
> -development halted
> > > systemd-shim is not an reimplementation of logind, its a wrapper to
> allow
> > > the use of systemd logind and a few other
> > > components without requiring systemd init. It certainly provides enough
> > > for a full GNOME support up to 3.14 and
> > > probably 3.16, we were using it in Ubuntu GNOME up until the recent
> switch
> > > to systemd init, and it worked well.
> > >
> > > I don't know where you heard development is halted, Canonical will 
> > > need to keep maintaining it so long as they still have
> > > upstart in the archives.
> > I based the comment on the fact that the last commit to
> https://github.com/desrt/systemd-shim
> > was Dec-14, but maybe Ubuntu uses a different git repo?
> >
> > That notwithstanding, I'm trying to make 3.16.x work and the only way
> forward would seem to be to
> > debug the "gnome-shell.desktop failed to register" error, hence the
> request for help :)
> >
> bump?

Check out Devuan: supposed to be a Debian derivative without systemd. So
far it's vaporware, but they might be able to assist in this regard. I
wouldn't expect the Gnome Development community to be the place to ask.
Devuan has a website: https://devuan.org/