> On Sep 20, 2017, at 11:33 AM, J. Fahrner <jf@???> wrote:
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> Am 2017-09-20 17:19, schrieb John Franklin:
>
>> Your premise that “Gnome depends on systemd” is false. The current
>> *packages* may depend on systemd, but I’ll bet they can be patched and
>> rebuilt without systemd.
>> Give it a try. Please build the gnome packages from scratch and report
>> back with where compilation fails. Better yet, file bugs with patches
>> to create a set of Gnome packages that don’t depend on systemd.
>
> Who should do that? Why not YOU? Why are you demanding this on someone else? This is free software. Everyone can do this.

Getting Gnome working on Devuan is not one of my needs, but it is his. I’m encouraging him to collect some hard data so a solution can be crafted, instead of carrying on a pointless argument based on a false premise.

jf
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