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Originally posted by Scimmia View PostBecause it's no longer a technical issue, it's become a completely emotional issue for a lot of people.
it's also a "UNIX fanboy" issue and "people hate new stuff" issue and "people hate lennart" issue and "people don't understand how great it is" issue
but that a simple gtk program like nm-applet depends on gnome3 and systemd is not a technical issue
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Originally posted by gens View Postofc
it's also a "UNIX fanboy" issue and "people hate new stuff" issue and "people hate lennart" issue and "people don't understand how great it is" issue
but that a simple gtk program like nm-applet depends on gnome3 and systemd is not a technical issue
GNOME is a software collection, it's practically impossible to "depend on it" from a software package (unless you mean a group dependency in comps.xml). You can choose on depending on a part of it that is useful to you (say the DBus client or the windowing toolkit) without depending on the rest (such as the shell or sound theme). The same with systemd -- it's essentially the Linux userspace plumbing, you usually depend on certain portions of it, such as udev (which could be, at distro's option, provided without other systemd parts).
That said, at least on my Fedora 21 the network-manager-applet package depends on nothing that would count as "GNOME dependency" or "systemd dependency".
Lastly, I fail to see how wouldn't that be a technical issue.
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Originally posted by gens View Postbut that a simple gtk program like nm-applet depends on gnome3 and systemd is not a technical issue
a) using Gnome libraries instead of reimplementing in-house what the libraries provide
b) using logind to allow an unprivileged user to mess around with networking settings, an otherwise privileged operation
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