Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-14 Thread Baho Utot
On 08/14/2012 03:17 AM, Tom Rand wrote: On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 08:59:07AM +0200, Lukas Jirkovsky wrote: On 13 August 2012 21:36, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Mon, 2012-08-13 at 21:26 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Some chips work better at e.g. 96KHz, it doesn't depend to

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-14 Thread Alex Belanger
You are either trolling or don't understand that you are not one man group. We have guidelines: He asked politely; be respectful back but also for others here. On Aug 14, 2012, at 7:10 AM, Baho Utot baho-u...@columbus.rr.com wrote: On 08/14/2012 03:17 AM, Tom Rand wrote: On Tue, Aug 14, 2012

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 08:07 -0400, Alex Belanger wrote: You are either trolling or don't understand that you are not one man group. We have guidelines: He asked politely; be respectful back but also for others here. Top posting isn't nice too ;). However, some shared mails off-list, if a

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 08:58:41AM -0400, Baho Utot wrote: Yes looks like I will need to migrate to BSD I've already begun using FreeBSD. Only real complaint I have is that my notmuch database isn't backwards compatible with the one they have in ports. Other than that, it's been a smooth

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-08-09 at 13:13 -0600, Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia wrote: On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 08:58:41AM -0400, Baho Utot wrote: Yes looks like I will need to migrate to BSD I've already begun using FreeBSD. Only real complaint I have is that my notmuch database isn't backwards

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Monday 13 Aug 2012 12:34:26 Joakim Hernberg wrote: On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:50:16 +0530 Alternatively we will all be running systemd one day whether we want to or not :( I suspect that this has been the game plan all the time though. OK, flames away I guess :) Wow, this sounds so much

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 13:45 +0100, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: and easier for most users to maintain USERS? I'm a stupid user. I guess you're talking about experts. For USERS it's hard to follow changes every half year. We stupid users simply want to use the computer. We are willing to learn, but we

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Jelle van der Waa
On 08/14/12 14:59, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 13:45 +0100, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: and easier for most users to maintain USERS? I'm a stupid user. I guess you're talking about experts. For USERS it's hard to follow changes every half year. We stupid users simply want to use

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Baho Utot
On 08/14/2012 08:45 AM, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: On Monday 13 Aug 2012 12:34:26 Joakim Hernberg wrote: On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:50:16 +0530 Alternatively we will all be running systemd one day whether we want to or not :( I suspect that this has been the game plan all the time though. OK,

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Baho Utot
On 08/09/2012 03:13 PM, Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia wrote: On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 08:58:41AM -0400, Baho Utot wrote: Yes looks like I will need to migrate to BSD I've already begun using FreeBSD. Only real complaint I have is that my notmuch database isn't backwards compatible with the

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 15:05 +0200, Jelle van der Waa wrote: So better learn it now :p That might be true, since I don't think I have a choice, e.g. switching to BSD seems no alternative for my needs. I should install a second Arch with full Poettering code ... take some drugs, e.g. Diazepam ...

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Baho Utot
On 08/14/2012 08:59 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 13:45 +0100, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: and easier for most users to maintain USERS? I'm a stupid user. I guess you're talking about experts. For USERS it's hard to follow changes every half year. We stupid users simply want to use

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Baho Utot
On 08/14/2012 09:05 AM, Jelle van der Waa wrote: On 08/14/12 14:59, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 13:45 +0100, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: and easier for most users to maintain USERS? I'm a stupid user. I guess you're talking about experts. For USERS it's hard to follow changes every

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 03:05:02PM +0200, Jelle van der Waa wrote: Tell me what's hard about systemd? I think what he was saying wasn't that systemd is hard but switching is hard irrespectively of what you're switching to. That's my inference anyway.

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 09:12:30AM -0400, Baho Utot wrote: I have stopped using arch except for one server that does mail and DNS. It is presently being moved to my own linux distro based on LFS and using pacman for the package manager. Oooh! Link?

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 09:13 -0400, Baho Utot wrote: On 08/14/2012 08:59 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 13:45 +0100, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: and easier for most users to maintain USERS? I'm a stupid user. I guess you're talking about experts. For USERS it's hard to follow

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 02:37:54PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I suspect that BSD for artist that draw can be used, but for audio not. Am I mistaken? I'm not sure I understand the question. There's a lot of audio software in FreeBSD. Whether any of it suits your purposes, I can not say.

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Tuesday 14 Aug 2012 09:12:30 Baho Utot wrote: I think Arch was good back in the day. Now not so good. This sounds a bit inflammatory and over-generalised. Presumably what you don't like about Arch now is the fact that it will potentially change its default init system sometime in the

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Baho Utot
On 08/14/2012 09:23 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 09:13 -0400, Baho Utot wrote: On 08/14/2012 08:59 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 13:45 +0100, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: and easier for most users to maintain USERS? I'm a stupid user. I guess you're talking about

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 15:23 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 09:13 -0400, Baho Utot wrote: On 08/14/2012 08:59 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 13:45 +0100, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: and easier for most users to maintain USERS? I'm a stupid user. I guess

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Jelle van der Waa
On 08/09/12 22:00, Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia wrote: I think what he was saying wasn't that systemd is hard but switching is hard irrespectively of what you're switching to. Because the devs made systemd being able to use rc.conf? It takes less then a day to use systemd, but I am not

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Bjoern Franke
Am Dienstag, den 14.08.2012, 14:59 +0200 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 13:45 +0100, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: and easier for most users to maintain USERS? I'm a stupid user. I guess you're talking about experts. For USERS it's hard to follow changes every half year. We stupid

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 14.08.2012 15:08, schrieb Baho Utot: Wow, this sounds so much like a conspiracy theory. The fact is that the people who write the code inevitably dictate which software is maintained, based on their interests and convictions, and they're pretty much unanimous that systemd is a better

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Baho Utot
On 08/09/2012 04:02 PM, Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia wrote: On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 09:12:30AM -0400, Baho Utot wrote: I have stopped using arch except for one server that does mail and DNS. It is presently being moved to my own linux distro based on LFS and using pacman for the package

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 09:08:36AM -0400, Baho Utot wrote: What is so wrong with the booting using sysvinit? As a critic of systemd, perhaps I can help. Init scripts tend to wreck the determinism beacuse they can inherit your env. pid files are a problem waiting to happen. There really is

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 09:26 -0400, Baho Utot wrote: What no turbo pascal? No. Some time later I switched to the Atari ST with a 80286 hardware emulator and tested Turbo C++ on DR DOS. Today I'm just a user, I don't wish to learn how to program nowadays computers, I simply wish to use the

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 03:32:42PM +0200, Thomas B?chler wrote: And you don't want systemd because you are sure it won't do what sysvinit can, even though you didn't try it. I think the complaint here is that the switch itself is a problem. I think he made it rather clear that he's not

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Tuesday 14 Aug 2012 09:08:36 Baho Utot wrote: I don't understand your point What is so wrong with the booting using sysvinit? I really don't need what systemd offers and sysvinit does everything I need and has not failed me. There's nothing inherently wrong with it, just like there

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Baho Utot
On 08/14/2012 09:25 AM, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: On Tuesday 14 Aug 2012 09:12:30 Baho Utot wrote: I think Arch was good back in the day. Now not so good. This sounds a bit inflammatory and over-generalised. Presumably what you don't like about Arch now is the fact that it will potentially

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread gt
On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 02:05:10PM -0600, Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia wrote: On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 02:37:54PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I suspect that BSD for artist that draw can be used, but for audio not. Am I mistaken? I'm not sure I understand the question. There's a lot of

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 03:28:17PM +0200, Jelle van der Waa wrote: On 08/09/12 22:00, Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia wrote: I think what he was saying wasn't that systemd is hard but switching is hard irrespectively of what you're switching to. Because the devs made systemd being able to

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Tuesday 14 Aug 2012 14:59:43 Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 13:45 +0100, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: and easier for most users to maintain USERS? I'm a stupid user. I guess you're talking about experts. For USERS it's hard to follow changes every half year. We stupid users simply

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 15:32 +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote: So, you are annoying the whole mailing list You are speaking for the WHOLE mailing list? I read this from others a thousand times before. YOU AREN'T SPEAKING AT LEAST FOR ME! Call me a troll, I'm anyway member of this list and YOU DON'T

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 07:20:29PM +0530, gt wrote: Offtopic: Your system clock seems to be way off. So it is! Thanks for the heads up.

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Denis A . Altoé Falqueto
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Baho Utot baho-u...@columbus.rr.com wrote: On 08/09/2012 03:13 PM, Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia wrote: On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 08:58:41AM -0400, Baho Utot wrote: Yes looks like I will need to migrate to BSD I've already begun using FreeBSD. Only real

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Baho Utot
On 08/14/2012 09:32 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: Am 14.08.2012 15:08, schrieb Baho Utot: Wow, this sounds so much like a conspiracy theory. The fact is that the people who write the code inevitably dictate which software is maintained, based on their interests and convictions, and they're pretty

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Calvin Morrison
On 14 August 2012 09:52, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto denisfalqu...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Baho Utot baho-u...@columbus.rr.com wrote: On 08/09/2012 03:13 PM, Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia wrote: On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 08:58:41AM -0400, Baho Utot wrote: Yes looks like

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 14:47 +0100, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: On Tuesday 14 Aug 2012 09:08:36 Baho Utot wrote: I don't understand your point What is so wrong with the booting using sysvinit? I really don't need what systemd offers and sysvinit does everything I need and has not

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Jelle van der Waa
On 08/14/12 15:51, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: On Tuesday 14 Aug 2012 14:59:43 Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 13:45 +0100, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: and easier for most users to maintain USERS? I'm a stupid user. I guess you're talking about experts. For USERS it's hard to follow

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Baho Utot
On 08/09/2012 04:23 PM, Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia wrote: [putolin] As explained in this and other threads, it may not be a decision we, in the Arch world, get to make. Too much of upstream may actually be dictated by what a comercially-backed distro does. That is why I just may end up

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Baho Utot
On 08/14/2012 09:58 AM, Calvin Morrison wrote: [putolin] When did offering an opposing opinion to what ever is popular become tolling? what is this? /r/politics? I frankly have seen arguments both ways for systemd and initscripts, and the fact that many users do not want to switch is enough

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 14:51 +0100, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: On Tuesday 14 Aug 2012 14:59:43 Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 13:45 +0100, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: and easier for most users to maintain USERS? I'm a stupid user. I guess you're talking about experts. For USERS

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Sander Jansen
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Baho Utot baho-u...@columbus.rr.com wrote: On 08/09/2012 04:23 PM, Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia wrote: [putolin] As explained in this and other threads, it may not be a decision we, in the Arch world, get to make. Too much of upstream may actually be

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Denis A . Altoé Falqueto
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Calvin Morrison mutanttur...@gmail.com wrote: On 14 August 2012 09:52, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto denisfalqu...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Baho Utot baho-u...@columbus.rr.com wrote: On 08/09/2012 03:13 PM, Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread phani
On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 19:33:41 +0530, Jelle van der Waa je...@vdwaa.nl wrote: SuSe has systemd plans too in openSUSE's upcoming version, 12.2, systemd is default. for the moment though both init systems are being maintained. this lead to very similar discussions on the mailing lists over

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 09:55 -0400, Baho Utot wrote: BTW learn how to use filters in your email program. I'm not using Thunderbird anymore as he does, but I remember it was easy to do. However, I hope he won't ban anybody. His help is useful. Regarding to this discussion I don't like his opinion.

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 11:12 -0300, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto wrote: On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Calvin Morrison mutanttur...@gmail.com wrote: On 14 August 2012 09:52, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto denisfalqu...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Baho Utot

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Brandon Watkins
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Jelle van der Waa je...@vdwaa.nl wrote: On 08/09/12 22:00, Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia wrote: I think what he was saying wasn't that systemd is hard but switching is hard irrespectively of what you're switching to. Because the devs made systemd being able

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 16:23 +0200, Jelle van der Waa wrote: On 08/14/12 16:06, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 14:51 +0100, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: On Tuesday 14 Aug 2012 14:59:43 Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 13:45 +0100, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: and easier for most

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Baho Utot
On 08/14/2012 10:32 AM, Brandon Watkins wrote: On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Jelle van der Waa je...@vdwaa.nl wrote: On 08/09/12 22:00, Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia wrote: I think what he was saying wasn't that systemd is hard but switching is hard irrespectively of what you're

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Geoff
On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 15:23:28 +0200 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: snip ImightBeMistakenSinceIonlyTestedPascalWithTheC64AndDecidedToUseAssemblerInstead OT, but if the above is true, was that Oxford Pascal, and did you then switch to the MIKRO Assembler cartridge (as I did) ? Well

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 10:55 -0400, Baho Utot wrote: On 08/14/2012 10:32 AM, Brandon Watkins wrote: On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Jelle van der Waa je...@vdwaa.nl wrote: On 08/09/12 22:00, Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia wrote: I think what he was saying wasn't that systemd is hard but

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 10:55:02AM -0400, Baho Utot wrote: after switching to it I prefer it because I just find it a lot easier to deal with than sysvinit IMO. For example I find systemd's .service files so much cleaner and easier to understand than initscripts, they are also portable and

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Denis A . Altoé Falqueto
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 10:55 -0400, Baho Utot wrote: On 08/14/2012 10:32 AM, Brandon Watkins wrote: On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Jelle van der Waa je...@vdwaa.nl wrote: On 08/09/12 22:00, Anthony

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Calvin Morrison
On 14 August 2012 11:07, Fons Adriaensen f...@linuxaudio.org wrote: On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 10:55:02AM -0400, Baho Utot wrote: after switching to it I prefer it because I just find it a lot easier to deal with than sysvinit IMO. For example I find systemd's .service files so much cleaner and

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 16:03 +0100, Geoff wrote: On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 15:23:28 +0200 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: snip ImightBeMistakenSinceIonlyTestedPascalWithTheC64AndDecidedToUseAssemblerInstead OT, but if the above is true, was that Oxford Pascal, and did you then

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Mateusz Loskot
On 14 August 2012 16:05, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 10:55 -0400, Baho Utot wrote: Lennart Poettering by his own submission stated that he wanted udev as part of systemd and that he doesn't care about any other init system that would use udev. As with

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Kevin Chadwick
We should all be getting tired of this now. Please read the multiple threads before posting things that have already been posted. Actually don't as we will never hear from you again ;-) Who said we are going to be forced to use systemd again. I believe the systemd design spec also said he hopes

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Brandon Watkins
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Baho Utot baho-u...@columbus.rr.comwrote: On 08/14/2012 10:32 AM, Brandon Watkins wrote: On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Jelle van der Waa je...@vdwaa.nl wrote: On 08/09/12 22:00, Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia wrote: I think what he was saying wasn't

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 16:27 +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: Please CC me in any future audio discussions. Flagged! Regards, ralf

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 05:05:14PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Mailman archives! IIRC Heiko mentioned that there are more disputes about Lennart Poettering and his software on ALL mailing lists, than about anything else. Why is it like that? Probably because he has all the arrogance of DJB

[arch-general] XServer: Display errors beyond virtual x-coord 2640

2012-08-14 Thread Tobias Frilling
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi there, I found a strange problem today after connecting my new monitor to my computer. With the new monitor I am using a multi monitor setup of size 3200 x 1080. But it seems some applications are having troubles displaying anything beyond the

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Paul Dann
Yes, but it strives to hide those sorts of transitions from the user. I believe the issue in question is the pain of change. -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. Jelle van der Waa je...@vdwaa.nl wrote: On 08/14/12 15:51, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: On Tuesday 14 Aug 2012 14:59:43

Re: [arch-general] Using ATTR{flags} in udev rules

2012-08-14 Thread Leonid Isaev
On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 09:03:20 -0500 Sander Jansen s.jan...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Leonid Isaev lis...@umail.iu.edu wrote: Hi, While building an Arch-based wireless router I ran into a problem of persistent NIC naming. To differentiate which interfaces

Re: [arch-general] Update on Trinity - 2 versions available R14 and 3.5.13-sru

2012-08-14 Thread David C. Rankin
On 08/05/2012 11:03 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: All, There have been a few noteworthy developments with the Trinity project for Arch. There will be essentially 2 versions available. The primary focus of the project is currently on TDE 14.0.0 (R14) which is TQt3 based and due to executable

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Migration to systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Calvin Morrison
On 14 August 2012 10:57, Stéphane Gaudreault steph...@archlinux.org wrote: Systemd has a overall better design than SysV, lots of useful administrative features and provide quicker boot up. Considering that it has been around in our repositories for some time and that it could be considered

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 11:30:50AM -0400, Brandon Watkins wrote: Also, I will state once again that I think people are highly exaggerating the difficulty of transitioning an arch install to systemd, its quite simple. It sounds like you're trying to turn peoples' subjective preferences into an

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Migration to systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Jelle van der Waa
On 08/14/12 17:55, Calvin Morrison wrote: On 14 August 2012 10:57, Stéphane Gaudreault steph...@archlinux.org wrote: Systemd has a overall better design than SysV, lots of useful administrative features and provide quicker boot up. Considering that it has been around in our repositories for

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Paul Dann
Are you talking about the willingness of the Linux community in general to go through tough technical transitions for the sake of progress? If so, I'd say that's one of the big things that makes Linux so successful, and Windows so slow to improve. There are always the distros with LTS releases

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 09:46 -0600, Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia wrote: On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 05:05:14PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Mailman archives! IIRC Heiko mentioned that there are more disputes about Lennart Poettering and his software on ALL mailing lists, than about anything

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Migration to systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Calvin Morrison
On 14 August 2012 11:58, Jelle van der Waa je...@vdwaa.nl wrote: On 08/14/12 17:55, Calvin Morrison wrote: On 14 August 2012 10:57, Stéphane Gaudreault steph...@archlinux.org wrote: Systemd has a overall better design than SysV, lots of useful administrative features and provide quicker boot

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Brandon Watkins
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Paul Dann pdgid...@gmail.com wrote: Are you talking about the willingness of the Linux community in general to go through tough technical transitions for the sake of progress? If so, I'd say that's one of the big things that makes Linux so successful, and

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Paul Dann
That sounds like a perfectly fair attitude to have. Although the change may require a little thought, I really think SystemD will not suddenly make Arch difficult to use, though. Is that what you're worried about? -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. Ralf Mardorf

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 06:00:25PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I had to google, I never heard about Daniel J. Bernstein before. I suspect DJB is for Daniel J. Bernstein? Yes. If so, he seemingly isn't as half as arrogant as LP. Spend a week lurking a crypto mailing list and you may change

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Brandon Watkins
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.netwrote: On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 09:46 -0600, Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia wrote: On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 05:05:14PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Mailman archives! IIRC Heiko mentioned that there are more disputes about

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 16:59 +0100, Paul Dann wrote: Are you talking about the willingness of the Linux community in general to go through tough technical transitions for the sake of progress? If so, I'd say that's one of the big things that makes Linux so successful, and Windows so slow to

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Paul Dann
Sometimes the most loving thing to do is let someone go through a short, sharp pain in order to avoid a long, drawn out one. Systemd is not evil. You may not like the idea of changing, but it probably will be the best thing for you to do to avoid more pain down the line. No rush, but I reckon

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 17:04 +0100, Paul Dann wrote: Is that what you're worried about? Yes ;D. I switched to Arch to get rid of fear. No I'm very scary. - Ralf

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 18:14 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 17:04 +0100, Paul Dann wrote: Is that what you're worried about? Yes ;D. I switched to Arch to get rid of fear. No I'm very scary. ^^^ Now - Ralf

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Paul Dann
If there's a developer anywhere that agrees with you, and I expect there will be at some point, udev will be forked, or something else will be developed to rival systemd. Right now, that's not even necessary. -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. Baho Utot

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 05:13:45PM +0100, Paul Dann wrote: Sometimes the most loving thing to do is let someone go through a short, sharp pain in order to avoid a long, drawn out one. Systemd is not evil. You may not like the idea of changing, but it probably will be the best thing for you

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Migration to systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Leonid Isaev
On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 11:55:28 -0400 Calvin Morrison mutanttur...@gmail.com wrote: On 14 August 2012 10:57, Stéphane Gaudreault steph...@archlinux.org wrote: Systemd has a overall better design than SysV, lots of useful administrative features and provide quicker boot up. Considering that it

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Migration to systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Brandon Watkins
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Calvin Morrison mutanttur...@gmail.comwrote: On 14 August 2012 10:57, Stéphane Gaudreault steph...@archlinux.org wrote: Systemd has a overall better design than SysV, lots of useful administrative features and provide quicker boot up. Considering that it

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Migration to systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Brandon Watkins
I remember seeing the comparisons against SysV but not at all against upstart or OpenRC Comparison of systemd features vs upstart and sysv: note this is from lennart's site... http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/why.html

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Denis A . Altoé Falqueto
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia archli...@ishpeck.net wrote: I know that nobody in arch has declared the switch is inevitable but the way it looks, with upstream being eager enough to do so, it seems incredibly likely unless we train everyone to use DJB's

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 17:13 +0100, Paul Dann wrote: Sometimes the most loving thing to do is let someone go through a short, sharp pain in order to avoid a long, drawn out one. Systemd is not evil. You may not like the idea of changing, but it probably will be the best thing for you to do to

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Migration to systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Calvin Morrison
On 14 August 2012 12:20, Brandon Watkins bwa...@gmail.com wrote: I remember seeing the comparisons against SysV but not at all against upstart or OpenRC Comparison of systemd features vs upstart and sysv: note this is from lennart's site... http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/why.html This

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Migration to systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Hilton Medeiros
On 08/14/2012 12:55 PM, Calvin Morrison wrote: On 14 August 2012 10:57, Stéphane Gaudreault steph...@archlinux.org wrote: Systemd has a overall better design than SysV, lots of useful administrative features and provide quicker boot up. Considering that it has been around in our repositories

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Migration to systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Brandon Watkins
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Calvin Morrison mutanttur...@gmail.comwrote: On 14 August 2012 12:20, Brandon Watkins bwa...@gmail.com wrote: I remember seeing the comparisons against SysV but not at all against upstart or OpenRC Comparison of systemd features vs upstart and sysv:

[arch-general] OT: Major distributions (WAS: Re: [arch-dev-public] Migration to systemd)

2012-08-14 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 14.08.2012 18:19, schrieb Brandon Watkins: Systemd isn't going anywhere anytime soon, its going to be adopted by RHEL (which means it would also be adopted by RHEL derivatives like CentOS), and its being adopted by major distros like fedora, opensuse, mageia etc... What are those major

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Geoff
On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 13:24:49 -0300 Denis A. Altoé Falqueto denisfalqu...@gmail.com wrote: You should check arch-dev-public :) It's a funny thread https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2012-August/023389.html Mostly I just read arch-general and try to understand

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Brandon Watkins
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Geoff capstho...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 13:24:49 -0300 Denis A. Altoé Falqueto denisfalqu...@gmail.com wrote: You should check arch-dev-public :) It's a funny thread

Re: [arch-general] Update on Trinity - 2 versions available R14 and 3.5.13-sru

2012-08-14 Thread Martin Cigorraga
On 14 August 2012 12:52, David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.comwrote: On 08/05/2012 11:03 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: All, There have been a few noteworthy developments with the Trinity project for Arch. There will be essentially 2 versions available. The primary focus of the

Re: [arch-general] Update on Trinity - 2 versions available R14 and 3.5.13-sru

2012-08-14 Thread Calvin Morrison
On 14 August 2012 15:00, Martin Cigorraga m...@archlinux.us wrote: On 14 August 2012 12:52, David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.comwrote: On 08/05/2012 11:03 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: All, There have been a few noteworthy developments with the Trinity project for Arch.

[arch-general] old rc.sysinit?

2012-08-14 Thread Jorge Almeida
I would like to know how Arch used to deal with some init stuff, like configuring virtual consoles, initializing random seed, etc. Is there some way to retrieve older versions of /etc/rc.sysinit? TIA Jorge Almeida

Re: [arch-general] old rc.sysinit?

2012-08-14 Thread Stephen E. Baker
On 14/08/2012 4:08 PM, Jorge Almeida wrote: I would like to know how Arch used to deal with some init stuff, like configuring virtual consoles, initializing random seed, etc. Is there some way to retrieve older versions of /etc/rc.sysinit? Yes:

Re: [arch-general] old rc.sysinit?

2012-08-14 Thread Martin Cigorraga
On 14 August 2012 17:08, Jorge Almeida jjalme...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to know how Arch used to deal with some init stuff, like configuring virtual consoles, initializing random seed, etc. Is there some way to retrieve older versions of /etc/rc.sysinit? TIA Jorge Almeida Which

Re: [arch-general] old rc.sysinit?

2012-08-14 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 10:08 PM, Jorge Almeida jjalme...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to know how Arch used to deal with some init stuff, like configuring virtual consoles, initializing random seed, etc. Is there some way to retrieve older versions of /etc/rc.sysinit? Sure:

[arch-general] [System update] dhcpcd: /usr/lib/systemd/system/dhcpcd@.service exists in filesystem

2012-08-14 Thread Martin Cigorraga
~# pacman -Syu ... ... (6/6) checking package integrity [---] 100% (6/6) loading package files [---] 100% (6/6) checking for file conflicts [---] 100% error: failed to commit transaction

Re: [arch-general] [System update] dhcpcd: /usr/lib/systemd/system/dhcpcd@.service exists in filesystem

2012-08-14 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 11:19 PM, Martin Cigorraga m...@archlinux.us wrote: ~# pacman -Syu ... ... (6/6) checking package integrity [---] 100% (6/6) loading package files [---] 100% (6/6) checking for file conflicts

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