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Author: Jude Nelson
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To: Noel Torres
CC: dng@lists.dyne.org
Subject: Re: [Dng] KDE systemd lock-in
> Please note that I'm not defending systemd. I just explai why KDE
movement is logical.

Sorry, I should have been clearer. My mini-rant was aimed at KDE.

On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 8:37 PM, Noel Torres <envite@???> wrote:

> On Monday, 23 de February de 2015 23:39:19 Jude Nelson escribió:
> > > Why not? If I were a developer and I had a library or service doing
> part
> >
> > of my
> >
> > > work, I would link to it and delete duplicated code on my side.
> >
> > If logind could be run fully independently from systemd, I don't think
> > there would be as much of a controversy.
>
> Not logind, but its inteface can (and that's what LoginKit is about).
> >
> > This is why I don't really buy the explanation that "we don't depend on
> > systemd; we just depend on something that implements systemd's interface"
> > as an excuse for depending on systemd. That's like Microsoft saying
> > "Silly Linux users, MS Word doesn't depend on Windows, it just depends on
> > something that implements the Win32 API and DirectX." While technically
> > true, it hides the fact that the degree to which they depend on the API
> is
> > so large that the "something that implements the API" must effectively be
> > re-implementation of the very thing we were trying to avoid using in the
> > first place.
>
> Please note that I'm not defending systemd. I just explai why KDE movement
> is
> logical.
>
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