On 09/02/2017 16:45, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
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crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68


On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 3:37 PM, Tzafrir Cohen <tzaf...@cohens.org.il> wrote:
On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 02:59:02PM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
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crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68


On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 1:50 PM, Stefan Monnier <monn...@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

W.r.t to logging, I've agree that you're probably better off logging to
RAM (or to a remote host) than to a local "disk", and AFAIK that's the
default behavior of systemd anyway.
  with the exception of fedora which has only a few backers i will NOT
be distributing a filesystem which contains the completely
unethically-developed and very dangerous systemd application.  having
evaluated its development, watched the predicted security
vulnerabilities unfold and cause massive disruption, and witnessed its
"ram it down people's throats" deployment without due consideration or
consultation with end-users, nor the distros respecting end-users
rights to NOT be forced into using it, i cannot and will not be
associated or endorse such totally unethical behaviour, so will be
removing it from all rootfs images. post-distribution, if people then
wish to undo that because they find systemd to be useful and have no
objections to its usage they are entirely free to do so.
I very much like systemd and can hardly see myself using a system
without it. Thus I will personally want to have systemd on my systems.
Please don't make that too difficult a task for me.

That is: you don't like systemd? fine. Installing Debian without it is
rather simple:
https://wiki.debian.org/systemd#Installing_without_systemd
  does it include removal of libsystemd0?  (it doesn't).  it's not as
straightforward as it's made out to be, tzafrir.

In that case, all I'll have to do would be to install a few more
packages (and maybe disable syslog logging to reduce unnecessary disk
writes, and similar tweaks).
  i'm considering one of two options:

  (1) providing the image (a snapshot of debian/testing from before
jessie) i've been working with for a couple of years, now, as-is.  if
people want to upgrade, they just do "apt-get dist-upgrade" and they
get systemd and everything else.

  (2) putting on angband.pl's nosystemd repositories.  this is "hard
work" for me to both set up, and for others to remove (revert) just as
you say, so i am unlikely to do it... but it's an option.


However, if "removing it from the rootfs" means something similar to
Devuan, then It'll probably be simpler for me to reinstall the image
with a proper Debian system.
  that's why i made devuan available, separately.  which, after liking
it for a long time i also have issues with: their mission statement
says "all-inclusive PID1 choices"... yet systemd is *excluded* from
that list.  that's disintegritous and so i will not be using devuan.
if they gave people the *choice* i'd celebrate and be recommending
devuan everywhere and to everyone.

That's a fair point, but the point of Devuan is/was to provide choice, a choice the Debian devs would not provide, and that is Debian without systemd. So, if you want systemd, go debian, if not, go devuan. Devuan _with_ systemd would be a debian mirror wouldn't it?

Anyway, the main thing is _choice_ and I choose devuan, others can choose whatever, whenever :)

Cheers,

--
Mike Howard
Lancashire
England


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