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Is there something novel here that I am missing?

GNOME has had systemd as a hard dependency since 2012: it uses systemd-logind and a few other systemd services for its basic functionality. systemd is only available on Linux systems, therefore it's a pretty great achievement to get it running on OpenBSD.

OpenBSD's port of GNOME3 does not rely on systemd at all.

I don't think he said otherwise.

The poster said "hard dependency". This is false.

It's true.

I love unsupported assertion day!

The unpatched GNOME post 3.12 or so does have a hard dependency, which is why platforms like OpenBSD or Slackware have to patch. If it requires a patch to work around, it's a hard dependency.

Thanks. Just the kind of explanation I was looking for.

That sounds a bit misleading. I remember running Gnome 3.2/3.4 in 2012, while still using SysV init. I'm not sure whether logind or ConsoleKit was used, but the init system (what most people associate with the name "systemd") was definitely not the one from systemd.

It just happens that many a person gets bored and decides to watch a random desktop screencast, a fun with a history as long as reading DistroWatch articles.

And OpenBSD (OPENBSD MAN!!) is a great excuse to make this fun appear less stupid than it really is. :)

EDIT: After actually watching this video, there is something genuinely interesting in it: the applications to manage hardware and user accounts work, so the porting team must have put some effort into this. The rest is, supposedly, just the same as in Linux...

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