On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 09:54:11PM +0100, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote:
> On 05.12.2014 18:28, T.J. Duchene wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > I would suggest rather that systemd or anything that explicitly
> > requires systemd be removed from the "core" or main or whatever rough
> > Devuan decides to take. Tossing them out arbitrarily limits
> > users' choices, which is one of the reasons we are here discussing
> > this,
>
> Well, I'd consider anything that requires some specific init system
> is broken by design. Therefore, such stuff naturally would be considered
> alpha and therefore not suited for an general-purpose distro.

Some packages that require systemd probably don't do it by design, but
by accident. It would be appropriate to fix them. I suspect gnome
probably isn't in this class anymore. Old versions of gdm might be.

-- hendrik