userdb: add birthDate field to JSON user records by dylanmtaylor · Pull Request #40954 · systemd/systemd
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Stores the user's birth date for age verification, as required by recent laws in California (AB-1043), Colorado (SB26-051), Brazil (Lei 15.211/2025), etc. The xdg-desktop-portal project is addi...

Fork time? Maybe all the anti-systemd zealots were right all along…

Edit: To address whether it is likely that this change will affect users: Gnome is planning a stronger dependence on userdb, the part of systemd where this change is being implemented. https://blogs.gnome.org/adrianvovk/2025/06/10/gnome-systemd-dependencies/

Final Edit: The PR has been merged into main.

    • Oinks@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      2·
      10 hours ago

      Using Guix SD instead.

      Real answer, NixOS is very tied to Systemd (the init part anyways). Removing it would amount to rewriting the entirety of <nixpkgs/nixos>, and writing a bunch of extra service definitions for packages that are only supported on systemd. Also you’ll have to reimplement UserDB (which is what this PR is for) to get GNOME (maybe also KDE?) to work.

    • Pastel@sopuli.xyz
      1·
      9 hours ago

      Unfortunately not, systemd is tightly integrated into NixOS and an option for alternative backends would have non-insignificant overhead so they aren’t going to introduce it. The next best thing is SixOS