On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 10:40:50PM +0200, emnin...@riseup.net wrote: > 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 ... ;)
Did some searches and found nothing relevant about jabbawagga. There wsa a being in Lovecraft's mythology with a similar rythmm to its name: Tsathoggua But I don't recall anything about Tsathoggua engulfing the world. > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
