On Thu, 14 Mar 2019 01:48:07 -0700
Rick Moen <rick@???> wrote:

> I'm quoting the above in order to express appreciation for it -- in
> context. Like Steve Litt, I favour the smallest possible entanglement
> with Freedesktop.org 'desktop' components

[snip]

> I would not have supported that commitment, personally, but
> nonetheless can summon the wisdom to avoid expecting this project to
> abandon its principles just because I don't share some of them. And
> I thank you for aptly restating those principles.

That's a good point. For the person not prioritizing integration, there
are several distros and also *BSD. Devuan is and always has been Debian
without systemd.

SteveT