alt Hacker NewsHowever it does look as though KDE will depend on systemd more in the future. In which case it will gradually drop support for BSDs and Linux distros without systemd.
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jmclnx • today at 2:14 PM
FWIW, I tend to think eventually everything will. But I am more worried about Wayland than systemd for the *BSDs. AFAIK, all systemd does is start items KDE needs, so with some work I think workarounds can be created.
But, once Firefox changes to Wayland only, that will lock out NetBSD and OpenBSD. I heard FreeBSD has some kind of support for Wayland, but that probably forced FreeBSD to import a lot of Linuxisms.
I get the impression OpenBSD will not bring in those Linux specific items and NetBSD already posted Wayland is to big a project for them to import at this point.
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Unlikely, KDE has well-respected developers who have been around forever who run and maintain it on BSD. No one would tell these guys to pound sand for the minor convenience that systemd brings. IMO, KDE developers (I'm a mostly inactive one myself) are generally too eager to rely systemd, but they aren't extremist about it.