<div dir="ltr">From the systemd wiki,<div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.1875px">In the interest of enhancing the interoperability between systemd and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME" title="GNOME" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.1875px">GNOME</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.1875px">, systemd coauthor Lennart Poettering asked</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_GNOME_Project" title="The GNOME Project" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.1875px">the GNOME Project</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.1875px"> to consider making systemd an </span><span class="" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.1875px;background-color:rgb(255,249,249);color:rgb(47,79,79);border:1px solid rgb(255,220,220)">external dependency</span><sup class="" style="line-height:1em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;white-space:nowrap">[<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none"><span title="This passage needs to be better explained. (September 2013)">clarify</span></a></i>]</sup><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.1875px"> of GNOME 3.2.</span><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="" style="line-height:1em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemd#cite_note-25" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;white-space:nowrap">[25]</a></sup><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.1875px"> In November 2012, the GNOME Project concluded that basic GNOME functionality should not rely on systemd.</span><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="" style="line-height:1em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemd#cite_note-26" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;white-space:nowrap">[26]</a></sup><br>
</div><div><br></div><div>If this information is out of date can someone provide a source so that wikipedia can be updated.</div><div><br></div><div>Will Weaver</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Neil Watson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tlug-neil-8agRmHhQ+n2CxnSzwYWP7Q@public.gmane.org" target="_blank">tlug-neil@watson-wilson.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 10:15:49AM -0500, Michael Hill wrote:<br>
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On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Neil Watson <<a href="mailto:tlug-neil@watson-wilson.ca" target="_blank">tlug-neil-8agRmHhQ+n2CxnSzwYWP7Q@public.gmane.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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The GNOME team are still working hard to polarize the community.<br>
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Citation?<br>
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Is seems silly to for a desktop env to depend on a specific init system.<br>
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<a href="http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Red-Hat-confirms-GNOME-Classic-Mode-for-RHEL-7-1887469.html" target="_blank">http://www.h-online.com/open/<u></u>news/item/Red-Hat-confirms-<u></u>GNOME-Classic-Mode-for-RHEL-7-<u></u>1887469.html</a><br>

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversy_over_GNOME_3" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<u></u>Controversy_over_GNOME_3</a><div class="im HOEnZb"><br>
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