Hi Arnt! Am Mon, 11 Jul 2016 19:07:56 +0000 schrieb Arnt Karlsen <a...@iaksess.no>:
> > > > I don't use Slackware because their package manager won't figure out > > dependencies for me, causing me to need 10x the time to install some > > things (and I install a lot of stuff --- did I ever mention I write > > books for a living?). > > ..so which do you prefer, Slackware wee mess, > or being at the mercy of Poettering & Co? > > > On the other hand, a lot of people I respect (including emninger) > > love Slackware specifically because it leaves figuring dependencies > > to the user, leading to a relatively dependency-lean environment. > > ..aye, means you will have to do a _predictable_ wee bit more. > > ..can we (Devuan) lean on Slackware and alien conversion, > at least as a backup plan B to the potential Debian trap? > Recently, i followed, as a silent lurker, a - german - dispute on systemd, where frequently intervened Martin Vaeth, who is - IMHO - a very reasonable person (author of several open-rc scripts for Gentoo. In my poor - and non technical -words, he sustained, that, considering the tendency of the systemd people to engulf more and more essential/critical processes of the basic boot-up of linux, in a near future only a distro like gentoo would have a chance to survive, since its process of building (emerge) allows, to avoid the systemd jabbawagga [1]. When i read that, i thought, the same should go for slackware - in the linux ecosystem (given that they resist to the systemd temptation, which seems to be the case ... (?) ---- 1] I remember a novel of H. P. Lovecraft where there is a monster, which, once it'll be awaken it would engulf all the world. I believe to remember its name was jabbawagga, but it's only a vague memory ... ;) _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
