[Pkg-systemd-maintainers] Bug#733240: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#645540: Bug#729576: duplicate of bug #726763

[Steve Langasek]

On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 07:31:46PM +0100, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:

> After that gnome-shell and gdm3 should add a recommendation for
> systemd-sysv, since most people will want to use the functionality
> like suspend from menus, that needs systemd as PID 1, but
> occasionally some people may prefer to use sysvinit-core or upstart.

Absolutely not.  The desktop functionality is related to a set of dbus
services, which can be provided perfectly well on top of other init systems. 
We need a proper solution here, not the GNOME packages forcing an init
system selection on all users.

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