On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 07:47:08PM +0200, Joachim Fahrner wrote:
> Am 2017-06-20 18:58, schrieb KatolaZ:
> >What could be relevant is that, as several people have already pointed
> >out, GNOME 3 is still available for platforms in which systemd is not
> >present (e.g., FreeBSD: https://www.freebsd.org/gnome/). The main
> >problem in having "that" GNOME 3 in Devuan is the availability of a
> >sufficient number (which I cannot quantify, but would probably be >1)
> >of maintainers who are willing to delve into the FreeBSD port, and
> >transform that huge thing into a viable set of deb packages which play
> >well with the stuff currently present in Devuan (ascii?
> >beowulf?). This is totally doable, if people really want GNOME 3 in
> >Devuan.
>
> I disagree. This should be a task for gnome developers, if they want to be
> compatible with non-systemd systems (FreeBSD, Devuan...). If they don't,
> then forget Gnome. ANY developer outside of the gnome team will ALWAYS be
> behind the actual development, resulting in unstable ports. I would not
> accept such ugly "third party workarounds".

We have enough work being an "ugly" "third party workaround" for Debian.

-- hendrik