Re: Fwd: Re: Bug#727708: init system coupling etc.

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

First of all: thanks a lot to Olav for engaging in that debate! I couldn't have done it...  and I pretty much agree with the position you formulated: we should be open to reasonable patches that make things work better on whatever platform people want to try GNOME on. And we should be very happy that people want to try GNOME on those platforms. The shape of those patches can vary from case to case: could be reduced functionality, alternative backends, or a shim that puts systemd-lookalike interfaces in place. Expecting us to write all of those as a prerequisite for being 'allowed' into Debian is a non-starter.

Second: Its probably worth pointing out that Ryan has done a lot of work recently to make GNOME work better on freebsd - we're getting (or already have ?) a jhbuild-based autobuilder in place. And here: http://i.imgur.com/DeP6r1U.png is a screenshot of GNOME running on freebsd in a vm.

Matthias