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I believe the significance is that Gnome 3.X+ relies on systemd? Though I may be mistaken.

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My thoughts exactly. I'd love an article about how difficult (if it was at all) to port and run on BSD.

GNOME 3.16 optionally uses systemd interfaces. It still includes support for pre-systemd ways of doing things.

your comment is disingenuous. if GNOME still included support for pre-systemd ways of doing things:

1) why was this video even made to celebrate such a port, if it was trivial?

2) perhaps you can show us where the systemd interfaces were merely "optional" in GNOME?

Well, "optionally" in the sense that you can non-trivially excise and shim your way into a working system (the patches for 3.14 on Slackware, at least, are non-trivial and I'd imagine it's even more invasive on OpenBSD which doesn't have, for instance, /proc or /sys). Personally, I can't stand GNOME 3.X so I haven't looked too closely, but even just a couple of versions ago OpenBSD could only do "fallback".

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