On 05/12/2013 03:44 AM, Roger Leigh wrote: > We all saw where GNOME took use with their lack of choice: an > unusable trainwreck. It's a disgrace that this shipped as the > default desktop for wheezy, it really is.
Like for everything in Debian, this is bound to someone killing the concept of a default Desktop. It is indeed a shame that nobody worked on that. Let's hope someone finds the time to fix that for Jessie. > The fact that GNOME is going to *require* systemd is really > just yet another reflection upon the stupidity of tight-coupling > and what happens when you start trying to control others. What > are they, Microsoft or something? It's a bad attitude I never > thought I'd see in the free software world--up until now we took > great pains to be interoperable with each others rather than > forcing the rest of the world to conform to our worldview. One > desktop environment, and an awful one at that, dictating the > init system we use is a complete farce. Debian is a lot bigger > than GNOME, and if we have to, I'd vote for junking it entirely. I 100% agree with the above. Let's hope we can demonstrate that OpenRC is a viable choice. Working on it is so much better than just fighting on -devel. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/518f0135.5060...@debian.org
