Re: systemd as external dependency

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Le mercredi 18 mai 2011, à 19:08 +0200, Johannes Schmid a écrit :
> Hi!
> 
> > Yes, it might cost us a bit to be open and friendly like this -- and to
> > be honest, I'm not convinced the cost is that high for GNOME code, while
> > it certainly is for systemd -- but our community is not just about
> > purely technical matters. We also care about being open and friendly.
> > Or at least, we should.
> 
> I think Lennart made the point that systemd is not portable and won't be
> ported. He also made the point that that doesn't mean other OS could
> share the same interfaces as systemd while providing a completely
> different backend and he also made clear that the parts GNOME will
> likely depend on apart from gdm will be buildable on any OS while not
> providing much use.

Oh yes, I'm not saying systemd should be ported to the non-Linux world;
that's why I even mentioned the high cost for it in my mail. Sharing
interfaces makes sense in that case.

> I really don't think we can make a useful control-center that supports
> all kind of operating systems. People that care about configuring OS
> parts on non-linux systems should probably write their own
> control-center.

Two things here:

 - if we share interfaces, as suggested several times, surely we can
   have one control-center for many OS. Those OS just need to implement
   the interfaces.

 - I don't think all system settings panels need deep integration with
   the OS, so there's no need to build a completely different
   control-center for non-linux systems. We can disable some panels on
   some OS if needed.

Vincent

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