[OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome to become a Linux only project

[Christopher Chan]

On Friday, May 20, 2011 01:14 PM, Allan E. Registos wrote:
> On Friday, 20 May, 2011 07:08 AM, Bayard Bell wrote:
>> I've read most of the thread, and I don't see anyone drifting that way.
>>
>> Instead I see people saying that they aren't too worried about
>> kFreeBSD because it's a "toy" OS and then some varying degrees of
>> sectarianism and ecumenism about Linux distros. What I took away from
>> it was that there are a handful of developers who have some very
>> strong views favouring Linux specificity but that almost anyone
>> identifying themselves as members of the GNOME foundation or with a
>> gnome.org address has the desire to limit focus to a single platform
>> and rather think that the project's social skills need improvement.
>> It's probably not coincidental that the thread fires up around systemd
>> integration and that it's RH people associated with systemd
>> development appear a majority of the handful given to categorical
>> assertions about the wisdom of narrowed platform specificity.
> This rumor will become true when according to this article:
> http://www.osnews.com/story/24762/GNOME_Discusses_Becoming_a_Linux-only_Project
>
>
> The fact of the matter is this, however: if systemd becomes an
> external dependency for GNOME-Shell, this is effectively what is
> happening anyway. GNOME-Shell requires systemd which requires Linux.
> For all intents and purposes, it would turn GNOME into a Linux-only
> project.
>

Someone says it's not the whole of systemd but dbus...