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by agumonkey 4084 days ago
My thoughts exactly. I'd love an article about how difficult (if it was at all) to port and run on BSD.
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jdub 4084 days ago
GNOME 3.16 optionally uses systemd interfaces. It still includes support for pre-systemd ways of doing things.
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bandrami 4083 days ago
Well, "optionally" in the sense that you can non-trivially excise and shim your way into a working system (the patches for 3.14 on Slackware, at least, are non-trivial and I'd imagine it's even more invasive on OpenBSD which doesn't have, for instance, /proc or /sys). Personally, I can't stand GNOME 3.X so I haven't looked too closely, but even just a couple of versions ago OpenBSD could only do "fallback".
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anonbanker 4084 days ago
your comment is disingenuous. if GNOME still included support for pre-systemd ways of doing things:

1) why was this video even made to celebrate such a port, if it was trivial?

2) perhaps you can show us where the systemd interfaces were merely "optional" in GNOME?

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