Re: Call to fork

2014-02-15 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On 11 Feb 2014, at 16:40, Matthias Urlichs sm...@smurf.noris.de wrote: (a) please tell us which feature is only available with upstart. Please don't. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Call to fork

2014-02-14 Thread Serge Hallyn
Quoting John Paul Adrian Glaubitz (glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de): On 02/11/2014 04:18 PM, Serge Hallyn wrote: FWIW, disagree - I rarely set up a machine (little laptop or server or container) where I don't need to do one thing or another custom at boot. Throttle back cpus to prevent

Re: Call to fork

2014-02-11 Thread Florian Lohoff
Hi, On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 01:29:47AM +, Sam Hartman wrote: In all seriousness. Forking, or creating a Debian downstream because you'd like a different boot approach sounds like exactly the sort of constructive approach that will help you solve your problems and get an operating system

Re: Call to fork

2014-02-11 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mardi, 11 février 2014, 11.12:24 Florian Lohoff a écrit : Debian is not as useful as it was a couple years back. I started with debian because of m68k and later contributed the first mips and mipsel packages and hosted the first buildds for mips and mipsel. Cool, thanks! Debian has lost

Re: Call to fork

2014-02-11 Thread Sam Hartman
Thanks for sharing this. So, you're frustrated and very disappointed because Ddebian, something you cared about deeply has drifted so far away from what you want that you can no longer support it? I hope that if you decide to fork, you succeed in creating something that meets your needs. I hope

Re: Call to fork

2014-02-11 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 09:06:46AM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote: Thanks for sharing this. So, you're frustrated and very disappointed because Ddebian, something you cared about deeply has drifted so far away from what you want that you can no longer support it? I hope that if you decide to

Re: Call to fork

2014-02-11 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 03:39:49PM +0100, Florian Lohoff wrote: I am telling you that by all the technical discussions which of the systems is superior over the other you forget about your users. Our users shouldn't care what init system we use. It's an implementation -- and purely technical --

Re: Call to fork

2014-02-11 Thread vitalif
Our users shouldn't care what init system we use. It's an implementation -- and purely technical -- detail of the OS. Sorry to interfere with your discussion, but it really sounds like some kind of proprietary software idea :) I'm sure a big percent of GNU/Linux (and especially Debian

Re: Call to fork

2014-02-11 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
On 11/02/2014 15:39, Florian Lohoff wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 09:06:46AM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote: Thanks for sharing this. So, you're frustrated and very disappointed because Ddebian, something you cared about deeply has drifted so far away from what you want that you can no longer

Re: Call to fork

2014-02-11 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 07:02:19PM +0400, vita...@yourcmc.ru wrote: Our users shouldn't care what init system we use. It's an implementation -- and purely technical -- detail of the OS. Sorry to interfere with your discussion, but it really sounds like some kind of proprietary software idea

Re: Call to fork

2014-02-11 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 09:18:48AM -0600, Serge Hallyn wrote: FWIW, disagree - I rarely set up a machine (little laptop or server or container) where I don't need to do one thing or another custom at boot. Throttle back cpus to prevent overheating, register dynamic dns, whatever. You're

Re: Call to fork

2014-02-11 Thread Serge Hallyn
Quoting Paul Tagliamonte (paul...@debian.org): On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 03:39:49PM +0100, Florian Lohoff wrote: I am telling you that by all the technical discussions which of the systems is superior over the other you forget about your users. Our users shouldn't care what init system we

Re: Call to fork

2014-02-11 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Florian Lohoff: My estimation is that 99% of the users dont care - sysvinit is sufficient and works. 0.5% think they need this little tiny bit of feature which only upstart can give them, 0.5% think they need a feature only systemd can give them. (a) please tell us which feature is only

Re: Call to fork

2014-02-11 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Matthias Urlichs contributed: For instance, a daemon which fails to start under sysvinit will not even prevent the services which depend on it from starting up. How terminally stupid is that? Perhaps you should rethink that whilst considering the

Re: Call to fork

2014-02-11 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 02/11/2014 04:21 PM, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: You're hardly an average user (and I do mean this fondly) :) Reminds me of this, bro: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmPKDeo9Oow#t=3251 Do you see how many people are using alternative window

Re: Call to fork

2014-02-11 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 02/11/2014 04:18 PM, Serge Hallyn wrote: FWIW, disagree - I rarely set up a machine (little laptop or server or container) where I don't need to do one thing or another custom at boot. Throttle back cpus to prevent overheating, register dynamic dns, whatever. All of that is possible or

Re: Call to fork

2014-02-10 Thread Sam Hartman
debianfan == debianfan debian...@hushmail.com writes: debianfanI would like to propose forking Debian if the ctte debianfan committee selects systemd It's with great hesitation that I jump in here, and I know what I'm doing is wrong. I hope I've earned enough credibility over the

Re: Call to fork

2014-02-10 Thread Clint Byrum
Excerpts from Sam Hartman's message of 2014-02-10 17:29:47 -0800: debianfan == debianfan debian...@hushmail.com writes: debianfanI would like to propose forking Debian if the ctte debianfan committee selects systemd It's with great hesitation that I jump in here, and I know