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

[Andreas Cadhalpun]

Hi Steve,

On 28.12.2013 20:32, Steve Langasek wrote:
> 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.

As it is, GNOME upstream decided to depend on systemd being PID 1. While 
I don't really like it, I do not know of any alternative that exists 
now, but, of course, you are invited to create one.
Until that has happened, gdm3 and gnome-shell should recommend 
systemd-sysv to ensure that they work properly. You might not be aware 
of it, but this missing dependency has annoyed users (myself included) 
already, and there have been many bug reports about it (#726763, 
#729576, #731426, #731602, #731686).

Best regards,
Andreas