On Tue, 6 Jan 2015 21:50:39 +0100, Arve Barsnes wrote: > On 6 January 2015 at 20:04, Joel Roth <joelz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > There are about a dozen packages that depend on systemd, > > such as dbus, pulse-audio, avahi-daemon, udisk. Once these > > bottom-level packages are freed, the whole software stack is > > liberated, with the exception of the Gnome desktop environment. > > None of the packages you mention depend on systemd as it is, so maybe > you just need to move to a "liberated" distro. Vice versa e.g. Thunar indirectly depends on systemd, since Thunar depends on udev and udev and systemd are merged by upstream. In the last years we got some grotesque dependency chains. Getting rid of those dependency chains at least needs much work and sometimes might be impossible. Assumed Torvalds wouldn't reject kernel patches from at least one coder, we maybe already would have a serious issue. A good bridge back to systemd and co-option of init and dbus. Systemd depends on dbus and the time will come, when dbus becomes part of the kernel. $ pacman -Qi systemd | grep Depends\ On Depends On : acl bash dbus glib2 kbd kmod hwids libcap libgcrypt libsystemd libidn lz4 pam libseccomp util-linux xz Since systemd is not portable to non-Linux systems Debian dropped the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD port. Portability between Linux and other *nix soon or later will become harder and harder. Systemd and a few other new ideas aren't bad per se, but some of those new ideas added serious, dangerous drawbacks to Linux. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
