[mythtv-users] MythTV Install

[Rich Freeman]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 4:48 PM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hoi Brian,
>
> Tuesday, September 16, 2014, 10:29:06 PM, you wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2014-09-16 at 22:25 +0200, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
>>> Gnome3 demands systemd.
>
> Look on the Gnome site. On Gentoo I cannot install gnome3 without
> switching to systemd. I assume they would only enforce it if gnome
> demands it. Of cause it can be that they only advise it and that a lot
> of functionality won't be present without.

Right now you can get it to work without systemd, though the Gentoo
devs don't support this, mainly because it isn't likely to work in the
long-term anyway.  I think Funtoo (a Gentoo derivative by the Gentoo
founder) has a systemd-less Gnome3.

However, if you really want to go Gnome 3 you might as well just go
with systemd.  If not, then you might as well migrate to something
else.  You can push back the inevitable for a while longer, but sooner
or later the two aren't going to be separable.

Older versions of Gnome 3 do not require systemd, so I'm sure there
are non-systemd distros that have older versions of Gnome 3.

--
Rich