[anonbanker]

Thank you for honoring me and my opinion, even if you feel I am incorrect.

Further, thank you for confirming that GNOME depends on systemd directly, and not merely dbus. This was the crux of my issue, and why this port was non-trivial. Had it been dbus alone, which already is in ports, we wouldn't be having this conversation.

but it's relying on systemd's "public and stable" (which we won't get into here) interfaces to dbus. not dbus directly. By depending on systemd, they are not only getting out of maintaining "OS portability gunk", but getting out of supporting any other OS that doesn't use systemd. do you see the difference here?

there is no systemd-portable, such as OpenSSH offers. in fact, Lennart Poettering has stated that such a port would not only be non-trivial, but something he does not wish to happen. if there had been, we might not be having this conversation either.