On 2015-02-02 23:14, Gravis wrote:
>> Unless Devuan intends to drop or fork every single piece of software
>> that
>> decides to use systemd's facilities, it's going to be a war of
>> attrition as
>> things go on, no matter the arguments against systemd.
>
> for the vast majority of programs that depend on systemd, you can
> just
> recompile programs with the flag to exclude systemd library
> dependencies with no further effort required. the things that are
> really intertwined with systemd are part of Gnome. patches and API
> implementations are being made for those parts.
> --Gravis
How many packages are we talking about? Nobody is likely to compile a
thousand packages all on their own. Think of their poor fingers.

Michael