On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 07:46:30 +0530 Shridhar Daithankar <ghodechhap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Monday 27 Aug 2012 11:30:46 AM Joakim Hernberg wrote: > > On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 10:48:32 +0200 > > > > Thomas Bächler <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > But this only concerns the booting itself. As consolekit is > > > unmaintained, polkit will soon depend on systemd. The next Gnome > > > version will require systemd - more to come. > > > > I don't run gnome, but kde is just as bad in this case :( > > care to elaborate? > > I have always used KDE. Now I am using it with systemd but AFAIK it > does not mandate anything systemd specific. > > GNOME OTOH forces you to use pulseaudio : $ pacman -Qi shows me that kdebase-workspace depends on consolekit, which in turn depends on polkit. The above comment seems to suggest that kde will soon depend on systemd. But who knows, I can imagine that there are so many old time linux users that would hate installing something like systemd even if they use kde as DE. With a bit of luck someone willl step up and maintain an alternative to consolekit/polkit that doesn't require systemd. --- Joakim -- Joakim Hernberg
