Re: Announcing start of DNF 5 development

[Josh Boyer]

On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 8:35 AM Neal Gompa <ngompa13(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 8:29 AM Daniel Mach <dmach(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > Dne 04. 03. 20 v 23:01 Neal Gompa napsal(a):
>  > > On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 4:37 PM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
>  > > <zbyszek(a)in.waw.pl&gt; wrote:
>  > >> Are you going to use sd-bus for the dbus library?
>  > >>
>  > >
>  > > I'd hope not, given that we have cross-distro usage of DNF now, and a
>  > > couple of them don't have systemd.
>  > >
>  > Do you know which distros do not have systemd?
>  >
>  > We have evaluated sd-bus to be the best dbus client available, but we
>  > may have underestimated it's adoption.
>  >
>  > Couldn't systemd team split it into a separate library independent on
>  > the rest of the systemd eco-system? :)
>  >
>
>  Off the top of my head: PLD and ALT do not mandate systemd usage, and
>  their default setup is still sysvinit.
>
>  PCLinuxOS also does not have systemd and does not currently intend on
>  including it. 
If I were weighing the value of having dnf work on those distributions
vs. building out a more robust and maintainable dnf for *most*
distributions, I would choose the later.  My point here is that
cross-distro compatibility is important, but it is not the most
important thing.

josh

> Also, I can't use systemd stuff on darwin-based systems (macOS and
> PureDarwin), even though that may not matter to you. :)
>
>
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