Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-13 Thread Clint Byrum
Excerpts from Chow Loong Jin's message of 2013-06-12 11:06:54 -0700: > On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 09:44:16AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 04:40:22PM +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > > > > > Bitrot doesn't happen immediately, and even when it does happen, it will > > > take t

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-12 Thread Ondřej Surý
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 7:34 PM, Uoti Urpala wrote: > Michael Stapelberg wrote: > > Ondřej Surý writes: > > > I still think you should also update the table with information if the > > > library is actually used in PID 1 (or in forked process) as hmh > suggested: > > > > > >> It would be best to

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-12 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 09:44:16AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 04:40:22PM +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > > > Bitrot doesn't happen immediately, and even when it does happen, it will > > take time before its rate reaches an unmanageable state. Plenty of time > > to test

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-12 Thread Uoti Urpala
Michael Stapelberg wrote: > Ondřej Surý writes: > > I still think you should also update the table with information if the > > library is actually used in PID 1 (or in forked process) as hmh suggested: > > > >> It would be best to enhance > >> http://people.debian.org/~stapelberg/docs/systemd-depe

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-12 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 04:40:22PM +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > Bitrot doesn't happen immediately, and even when it does happen, it will > take time before its rate reaches an unmanageable state. Plenty of time > to test a solution in the meantime I say. Basic autogeneration of > sysvinit and

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-12 Thread Michael Stapelberg
Hi Ondřej, Ondřej Surý writes: > I still think you should also update the table with information if the > library is actually used in PID 1 (or in forked process) as hmh suggested: > >> It would be best to enhance >> http://people.debian.org/~stapelberg/docs/systemd-dependencies.html with >> info

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-12 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
Le 12/06/2013 09:49, Marc Haber a écrit : > On Sun, 09 Jun 2013 01:04:38 +0200, Michael Stapelberg > wrote: >> since some people might not read planet debian, here is a link to my >> first blog post in a series of posts dealing with the results of the >> Debian systemd survey: >> >> http://people.

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-12 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 09:49:03AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > [...] > |While it is sad that those machines cannot profit from systemd, switching > |to systemd as a default has no downside either: Debian continues to > |support sysvinit for quite some time, so these machines will continue > |to work

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-12 Thread Ondřej Surý
Hi Michael, On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > Hi Ondřej, > > Ondřej Surý writes: > > and if I match this with the table at: > > http://people.debian.org/~stapelberg/docs/systemd-dependencies.html I > get > > the result that you will _not_ compile systemd with: > > > >

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-12 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 09 Jun 2013 01:04:38 +0200, Michael Stapelberg wrote: >since some people might not read planet debian, here is a link to my >first blog post in a series of posts dealing with the results of the >Debian systemd survey: > >http://people.debian.org/~stapelberg/2013/06/09/systemd-bloat.html T

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-11 Thread Michael Stapelberg
Hi Ondřej, Ondřej Surý writes: > and if I match this with the table at: > http://people.debian.org/~stapelberg/docs/systemd-dependencies.html I get > the result that you will _not_ compile systemd with: > > libselinux.so > libpam.so > libwrap.so > libaudit.so > libkmod.so > > because they are mar

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-11 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Ondřej Surý > Tollef, it is still unclear to me as well. Ok, I'll try to be clearer then. > You said: > > > I'd like to align with upstream here (and in general): If upstream says > > a component is optional, that's a configuration I'd in general want to > > support. If upstream says a com

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-11 Thread Ondřej Surý
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 7:36 AM, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > ]] Thomas Goirand > > > If what you say above is right (I have no opinion on that yet, I just > > trust what you say), then this renders the "systemd is modular" argument > > completely useless, because practically, the user wont be able

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-10 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Thomas Goirand > If what you say above is right (I have no opinion on that yet, I just > trust what you say), then this renders the "systemd is modular" argument > completely useless, because practically, the user wont be able to > choose. Which is why I was asking specifically Michael about t

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-10 Thread Uoti Urpala
Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 06/11/2013 02:23 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Mon, 10 Jun 2013, Thomas Goirand wrote: > >> Then which component would you install, and activate by default? Which > >> component will you make only installable if the user decides to do it > >> actively (for

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-10 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 06/11/2013 02:23 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Mon, 10 Jun 2013, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> On 06/10/2013 03:21 AM, Michael Stapelberg wrote: >>> Thomas Goirand writes: In this blog post, you tell that it's possible not to use all the components of systemd. Then, the immed

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-10 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 10 Jun 2013, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 06/10/2013 03:21 AM, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > > Thomas Goirand writes: > >> In this blog post, you tell that it's possible not to use all the > >> components of systemd. Then, the immediate question that pops to my > >> mind: what are *your* inten

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-10 Thread Ondřej Surý
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Vincent Bernat wrote: > Le 2013-06-10 10:18, Ondřej Surý a écrit : > > > systemd does not rely on a toolkit. So, most of the arguments >>> listed by >>> Jamie do not hold. I suppose that you are mostly worried by libdbus >>> since other libraries are already use

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-10 Thread Vincent Bernat
Le 2013-06-10 10:18, Ondřej Surý a écrit : systemd does not rely on a toolkit. So, most of the arguments listed by Jamie do not hold. I suppose that you are mostly worried by libdbus since other libraries are already used in other critical daemons. Personally I would be more worried about libp

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-10 Thread Ondřej Surý
On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Vincent Bernat wrote: > ❦ 9 juin 2013 11:45 CEST, Bjørn Mork : > > > You do of course not have to agree. This is my personal opinion only. > > But I believe it is useful to read Jamie Zawinski's view on screensavers > > and toolkit library dependencies, and try

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-09 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 06/10/2013 03:21 AM, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > Thomas Goirand writes: >> In this blog post, you tell that it's possible not to use all the >> components of systemd. Then, the immediate question that pops to my >> mind: what are *your* intentions then, in Debian (or, said in an

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-09 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Robert Collins > On 10 June 2013 07:21, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > > Hi Thomas, > > > > Thomas Goirand writes: > >> In this blog post, you tell that it's possible not to use all the > >> components of systemd. Then, the immediate question that pops to my > >> mind: what are *your* intention

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-09 Thread Robert Collins
On 10 June 2013 07:21, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > Thomas Goirand writes: >> In this blog post, you tell that it's possible not to use all the >> components of systemd. Then, the immediate question that pops to my >> mind: what are *your* intentions then, in Debian (or, said in ano

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-09 Thread Michael Stapelberg
Hi Thomas, Thomas Goirand writes: > In this blog post, you tell that it's possible not to use all the > components of systemd. Then, the immediate question that pops to my > mind: what are *your* intentions then, in Debian (or, said in another > way, what would you like to do if you where the onl

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-09 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 06/09/2013 07:04 AM, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > Hi, > > since some people might not read planet debian, here is a link to my > first blog post in a series of posts dealing with the results of the > Debian systemd survey: > > http://people.debian.org/~stapelberg/2013/06/09/systemd-bloat.html

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-09 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 9 juin 2013 11:45 CEST, Bjørn Mork  : > You do of course not have to agree. This is my personal opinion only. > But I believe it is useful to read Jamie Zawinski's view on screensavers > and toolkit library dependencies, and try to figure out how that can be > relevant to systemd and external

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-09 Thread Michael Stapelberg
Hi Bjørn, Thanks for your well-put mail. As far as I understand it, your concern is that libraries might exit() (either due to actually calling exit() or due to having a bug) and therefore take pid 1 with them. I am sure that the systemd developers are very aware of this fact. They even published

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-09 Thread Bjørn Mork
Michael Stapelberg writes: > since some people might not read planet debian, here is a link to my > first blog post in a series of posts dealing with the results of the > Debian systemd survey: > > http://people.debian.org/~stapelberg/2013/06/09/systemd-bloat.html I was hoping you would cover my

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-08 Thread Robert Collins
Please note that I am not advocating for or against systemd, but... With regards complexity and whether it is intrinsic or not, Rich Hickey puts forward a more rigorous definition of complexity, and how it is sometimes in tension with easiness... http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy-

Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-08 Thread Michael Stapelberg
Hi, since some people might not read planet debian, here is a link to my first blog post in a series of posts dealing with the results of the Debian systemd survey: http://people.debian.org/~stapelberg/2013/06/09/systemd-bloat.html -- Best regards, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-