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The Engineer Who Tried to Put Age Verification Into Linux (www.sambent.com)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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[–] 13 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Can someone explain why there is a separate merge for systemd and Arch? If Arch just uses the systemd init which was already modified, then what was the separate request for?

I'm using vanilla Arch and will be pissed if I have to switch, but I will based on this. I'm not willing to give an inch.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    The systemd change 'just' adds a birthday field to the user data, where you could store (or don't) the users birthday, that then could be used by other applications to request an age bracket.

    The Arch-change doesn't effect real arch Linux. It modifies the archinstall script (so, irrelevant, if you install according to Wiki) to ask the user for their birthday during installation and stores it for systemd.

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