To what extent does/will Dovecot depend on systemd? was systemd changes...

[Dave McGuire]

On 02/22/2016 01:27 PM, aki.tuomi at dovecot.fi wrote:
>>>>> [snip]
>>>>>
>>>>>> The PID-File seems to be expected under yet another sub-dir
>>>>>> of /var/run/dovecot.
>>>>> I wasn't aware that any Dovecot functionalities have become dependent
>>>>> on systemd. Is this discussion simply about the unit file and PID file
>>>>> location for Dovecot under systemd's process manager, or is Dovecot
>>>>> starting to acquire systemd dependencies that will make it difficult to
>>>>> run without systemd in the future?
>>>>>
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>>>> We do not depend on systemd, but unit files are provided and
>>>> automatically installed if enabled.
>>>
>>> That's excellent news, because hell will freeze over before systemd is
>>> introduced to official slackware releases
>>
>>   Or Solaris, for that matter.
> 
> Thank you for your feedback on this matter. We will keep this in mind.

  Thank you Aki.

            -Dave

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