Haven't touched GNOME since they moved from version 2 to version 3.

Given their history and support for systemd, I'd be all in favor of dropping GNOME from Devuan's list of Desktop Environment offerings. Will anyone miss them?

X.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Litt" <slitt@???>
To: "dng" <dng@???>
Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2025 6:59:21 PM
Subject: Re: [DNG] Gnome - Introducing stronger dependencies on systemd

Marko Randjelovic via Dng said on Sat, 21 Jun 2025 07:05:49 +0200

>On 2025-06-13 11:37, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > Kevin Chadwick via Dng - 13.06.25, 13:18:07 CEST:
>
> > What remains to be seen is whether it is feasible to have GNOME in
> >
>Devuan
> > in a long term. Depends on whether some people develop replacements
> > for what they rely on Systemd in the future, I'd say.
>
>I think that in such a situation, when we have so many good
>alternatives, investing so much time and energy into GNOME is wasteful.

I personally agree with the preceding sentence. But maybe, more to the
point, we can have an unofficial poll to see how many Devuan users
regularly use Gnome as a desktop environment.

SteveT

Steve Litt

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