On Sun, 03 Jun 2012 01:37:38 -0500 "David C. Rankin" drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com wrote:
All,
Arch is switching to systemd init. I don't know if this will have any impact on TDE, but older versions have dependency conflicts due to the packages that have been removed (heimdal from krb5, etc...) Not all systemd related, but I wonder what other init or sysv dependent packages will need to be fixed for systemd -- hopefully none at all, but I don't know enough to knnow.
So what do the TDE gurus say? Is there anyone building/running on a systemd box currently? If not, what problems has anyone heard of caused by systemd (more importantly -- and known tde specific impacts related to systemd.
Issue/No Issue? Gurus?
Fedora seems to have been using systemd by default for the last version or two; I believe they have working Trinity packages. OpenSuSE has one (very minor) bug filed against the KDE3/systemd combination: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-bugs/2011-12/msg01977.html
Most of what systemd does is likely to be at a level of the system that's lower than what Trinity needs to concern itself with. systemd/sysv incompatibilities seem to be mostly at the level of init script syntax, which I don't think we need to worry about.
Further reading: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/Incompatibilities http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/why.html , http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/OpenRC [1] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/writing-display-managers [2]
[1] Two slightly different comparisons of currently available Linux startup systems. While the line items in the first table on each page are almost identical, it's interesting to see the biases sloshing around. ;)
[2]Only a concern for us if tdm/kdm was ever integrated with ConsoleKit, which I don't think it was