[Mageia-dev] Fwd: GNOME 3.4 will rely on hostnamed, localed, timedated D-Bus API

Fri Jan 27 22:25:13 CET 2012

Le vendredi 27 janvier 2012 à 16:14 +0000, Colin Guthrie a écrit :
+> 'Twas brillig, and Michael Scherer at 27/01/12 15:52 did gyre and gimble:
+> > Le vendredi 27 janvier 2012 à 10:07 +0000, Colin Guthrie a écrit :
+> >> 'Twas brillig, and Olav Vitters at 27/01/12 00:00 did gyre and gimble:
+> >>> Daemons will work under sysvinit. Just need to be installed
+> >>
+> >> Cool, I'll keep it in mind. They shouldn't need anything special to be
+> >> honest and I think systemd is required by basesystem anyway
+> > 
+> > I fear some people may not like this, can we avoid adding a hard
+> > requires, and in this case, split the package ?
+> > 
+> > ( or at least, if we cannot do otherwise, we need to document it, and
+> > how to disable systemd in the release notes, with clear instruction.
+> > People will complain, but we will answer "this is documented" ).
+> 
+> Systemd is just installed, it doesn't mean it's used. You need to
+> install systemd-sysvinit for it to replace sysvinit.
+
+Yes, I know this is just installed and not used, but I am pretty sure
+that some people will complain. 
+
+> While I'm sure we could split the package up, I'm not really sure how
+> much it gains in practice other than a few kb of disk space.
+
+Disk space is not the concern. Making sure I do not start to kill people
+who complain "systemd cannot be removed, this is an outrage !!" is the
+concern :)
+
+But if this cannot be done or too hard, no problem.
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+