Once again #KDE tries to get rid of minority distributions. This time by replacing SDDM with PLM (plasma login manager). PLM depends on systemd.
So sooner or later no KDE for #alpineLinux, #FreeBSD, #Gentoo, #NetBSD, #OpenBSD, #Slackware, #VoidLinux, etc.
For #BLFS it is no problem as BLFS itself recently discontinued its non-systemd version.
#LFS
@txt_file sddm will continue to work, just as any other login manager.
Plasma login manager is just a fork of it to be able to overcome certain restrictions imposed by general purpose login managers, to provide more functionality and to eliminate legacy code.
You can still use sddm, GDM, LightDM to initiate your Plasma session.
@bart@mastodon.fam-ribbers.com as I remember it is not the first time KDE thinks about systemd dependencies. With each time my trust shrinks bit by bit. My current feeling is that in ≤ 2 years KDE depends on systemd or something similar. For now it is only the replaceable login manager. If sometime Dolphin becomes systemd-only will people say "you can just use another file manager"? After how many replacement parts does KDE stop being KDE (Ship of Theseus)? @Triddle@infosec.exchange
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