On Tue, 03 Feb 2015 16:14:10 +0100
Godefridus Daalmans <frits@???> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Jude Nelson posted an enormous rdepends list, of what packages would
> need to be changed for Devuan Jessie,but from my own experimentation
> I concluded that it wasn't so bad if we are willing to give up on a
> few other things:
>
> - Give up on GNOME for the moment

This brings up the point that we should start lobbying "upstreams" not
to depend on systemd. And, of course, dropping Gnome gives us some
credibility in that matter.

Obviously, "upstreams" won't care what Devuan does, but if others start
following in our footsteps, that's a different story.

SteveT

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