On 13/09/14 22:46, lee wrote:
I'd be happy to see some support. I cannot speak for "the users" or for
"the free software community". You users, and the community members,
whoever they are, need to speak as well.
OK, so I'll "speak as well". :-)
But first of all I'd like to thank you and some other people here for
trying so hard to stop a development that I consider very unfortunate.
I have been using Linux for almost 20 years now. In the beginning the
main problem for me was to find software that could do what I wanted.
Today I am spending a considerable amount of time trying to get rid of
components and "features" that I neither need nor want.
I recently managed to get rid of the dbus daemon (in Wheezy) by removing
evince, liferea, zenity, and jackd2. I replaced these by qpdfview,
rawdog, xdialog (from Debian Archives) and jackd1, and freed over 100 MB
of disc space in the process.
I used to program in Assembler back in the days of MŚ DOS, and in my
books the best program for a particular job is still the one that
consumes the least amount of resources while doing what needs to be
done. When Videolan (now vlc) was new, it made me happy by enabling me
to watch DVDs almost jerk-free on a 386SX. Today, vlc tries to pull in
some 45(!) or so additional packages to do the same thing. Isn't that
somewhat ridiculous? And isn't it also ridiculous when a PDF reader
refuses to open a file that you give it because there is no "dbus" running?
Of course I still have libdbus, libdconf and all that stuff installed,
as other packages depend on it even without dbus and gnome, and
_something_ keeps creating a ".pulse" directory and a ".pulse-cookie"
file in my $HOME although I never used or installed Pulseaudio.
My impression is that most of the issues I've had with Debian recently
(e. g. with udev after upgrades) originate from the same corner of the
Linux universe, namely the developers of so-called "Desktop
Environments" who keep trying to convert Linux into some sort of free
(?) MS Windows. And the solution, in my humble opinion, might be to
split Debian into a branch for Desktop Environment users and a branch
for users who do not want such "integration".
And by the way - if it is true that systemd comes from a company that
does business with the military and with secret services, that alone
would be enough of a reason for me to reject it.
Thanks for listening.
peter
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