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TL;DR systemd is winning the developer mind share. Things being built like Gnome which require SystemD thus most things will need systemd.

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Gnome needs a dbus api that currently only systemd supports, which is not quite the same thing.

With the irony that Poettering was the guy to pull the plug on the alternative. And alternative that could live on top of any init out there.

Lennart's view is that he did all he could to avoid breaking using GNOME with ConsoleKit: http://lwn.net/Articles/621182/

While at the same time giving every indication that consolekit was dead.

http://erickoegel.wordpress.com/2014/10/20/consolekit2/comme...

The mail from 2102 that is linked from your url contains this paragraph, wonder what happened to that plan?

"Ubuntu plans to take over maintainership (more precisely Martin Pitt from Canonical), to maintain it as long as they still need it, and will change the name while doing so."

Tried to find out some time back. All i could find was a empty Consolekit project in Martin Pitt's name over at Launchpad. The mailing list didn't seem to hold much more info until Poettering closed it because he didn't want spam...

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