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Comment Re: a better question (Score 2) 592

...and apparently no one got the joke, since Macintoshes don't have internal blu-ray drives or software to play blu-ray discs...

I have not tested myself, I'm not interested in blu-ray. But I believe that you can get it to work on a Mac with VLC.

Comment Re:Why switch? (Score 1) 403

Please see the above posts mentioning that even gimp depends on systemd already.

No it doesn't. It depends on dbus which some distros build so that it depends on libsystemd. That's a client-side library for interacting with systemd, if it is installed an running. It is not the init system and it does not even depend on it.

Comment Re:Or Slackware, Gentoo, or Devuan (Score 1) 403

On Debian, gimp, a graphical editing tool, has an indirect systemd dependency!

Gimp depends on dbus, and Debian build dbus so that it depends on libsystemd.
Libsystemd is a client-side library for interacting with systemd, if it's installed and running.
It's not an init system. It doesn't even depend on it.

Submission + - Steam for Linux does rm -rf / (github.com)

An anonymous reader writes: If you have payed any attention to the systemd discussions you've heard that a good thing with shell scripts is that you can follow them line by line and easily fix them if they break. Well, Stem for Linux is launched by a shell script, and due to an unfortunate mishandling of a variable in the worst places of all it can literally run rm -rf / on your machine under certain circumstances, effectively removing everything from your file system. The bug is not yet fixed, so be aware if you use Steam on Linux.

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