On 13.04.2017 11:27, Vincent Danjean wrote:
> For me, the first argument explain in the first mail is not this one.
> systemd is not portable on lots of system (hurd, kFreeBSD, ...),
This is just one of many arguments for not making applications
depending on it. (and they shouldn't depend on
Vincent Danjean writes:
> I'm persuaded that ignoring this issue will lead to an unmaintanable
> Debian distribution on plateforms that do not support systemd in the
> middle/long term. But, perhaps, it is what the project wants.
> Enrico is proposing something else. I'm
]] Vincent Danjean
> For me, the first argument explain in the first mail is not this
> one. systemd is not portable on lots of system (hurd, kFreeBSD, ...),
> upstream systemd is not interested in making its code portable, nor to
> stabilize its interfaces so that other system init can easily
Hi,
I do not have any strong position on this subject.
Le 13/04/2017 à 02:13, Russ Allbery a écrit :
> I guess I'm confused about what you think this email will accomplish. I
> feel like it's just another round of being convinced that, since you
> dislike systemd, everyone else must also
On 2017-04-13 10:13, Russ Allbery wrote:
> It would be nice if people would stop doing the same thing over and over
> again and expecting different results.
Maybe this illustrates the core of the problem: https://xkcd.com/242/
"Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" writes:
> So, why don't we just ask, what kind of functionality do applications
> really want (and what's the actual goal behind), and then define open
> interfaces, that can be easily implemented anywhere ?
Who's we?
The people who
On 12 April 2017 at 09:38, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> ..[snip]..
> So, at least anybody who maintains and systemd-free environment (eg.
> platforms that dont even have it) needs run behind them and keep up.
I think what you say there answers your own question at the end of
Quoting Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult (2017-04-12 08:38:26)
> I really wonder why people spent so much time in init system wars,
> instead of thinking clearly of the actual root problem to solve.
Because the debate got derailed by remarks painting other contributors
to the debate as idiots,
On 17.02.2015 18:49, The Wanderer wrote:
Hi folks,
just digging out an older thread that was still laying around in my
inbox - w/ about 2yrs distance, I hope it was enough cool down time
so we discuss it more objectively about that.
> libsystemd0 is not a startup method, or an init system.
On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 12:16 AM, Axel Wagner m...@merovius.de wrote:
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton l...@lkcl.net writes:
what *does* concern me is that it takes such incredible (and amazing)
efforts by people like adam for the average end-user or sysadmin to
contemplate replacing {insert
Hi,
Marc Haber:
On Mon, 16 Feb 2015 22:31:19 +0100, m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) wrote:
As usual, the systemd critics are just misinformed. This comforts me.
because it means that their views can be easily ignored.
And as usual, you don't make any effort to change the misinformation.
Well
Hi,
Am 18.02.2015 um 04:32 schrieb Russ Allbery:
If the argument is that it should be opened with dlopen at runtime, I'm
quite confident that there are *many* people on debian-devel who have
worked with shared libraries and can spell out many reasons why that's a
horrible idea.
Correct.
As
On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 07:21:44PM +0100, Simon Richter wrote:
If the argument is that it should be opened with dlopen at runtime, I'm
quite confident that there are *many* people on debian-devel who have
worked with shared libraries and can spell out many reasons why that's a
horrible
Simon Richter s...@debian.org writes:
With my embedded hat on, it would be nice if there was an easy way to
drop this extra dependency, as it means a lot of essentially dead code
loaded on systems that don't use systemd.
Like others, I'd be happy to support that as a build profile or build
On Wed, Feb 18, 2015, at 04:32, Russ Allbery wrote:
(Removing every package whose name contains the string systemd is not a
practical, useful purpose. It's just silly.)
Perhaps we could rename the library (and the package) to:
libthis-is-not-the-library-you-are-looking-for.so.0
I guess that
On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 12:27 AM, Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org wrote:
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 11:52:21PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 10:52 PM, Josh Triplett j...@joshtriplett.org
wrote:
So, please go educate yourself on what libsystemd0 actually
On 2015-02-18 13:54, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
that's right - i haven't. because (a) i have complete confidence in
your technical abilities, as a group. i wouldn't use debian
otherwise! :) and (b) this isn't a technical issue, it's a strategic
one.
No, it's not. The issue is (c)
On February 18, 2015 7:54:00 AM EST, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
l...@lkcl.net wrote:
On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 12:27 AM, Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org
wrote:
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 11:52:21PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson
Leighton wrote:
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 10:52 PM, Josh Triplett
On Feb 18, Simon Richter s...@debian.org wrote:
With my embedded hat on, it would be nice if there was an easy way to
drop this extra dependency, as it means a lot of essentially dead code
loaded on systems that don't use systemd.
http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/users/md/libsystemd-dummy.git/
On 02/17/2015 07:36 PM, j...@joshtriplett.org wrote:
I'm all out of patience now, and I no longer have any hope that you
actually care about being taken seriously. I have no plans to respond
to any future mails from you.
Hey Josh,
Thanks for taking the time to write that up. I'm a user*,
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 10:52 PM, Josh Triplett j...@joshtriplett.org wrote:
So, please go educate yourself on what libsystemd0 actually does,
i know what it does, and what it does - technically - is *not* the
issue that i am concerned about.
and if
for some reason you still consider it a
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton l...@lkcl.net writes:
what *does* concern me is that it takes such incredible (and amazing)
efforts by people like adam for the average end-user or sysadmin to
contemplate replacing {insert nameless package}.
insert libc6. Or insert perl. Or insert linux-image.
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 11:52:21PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 10:52 PM, Josh Triplett j...@joshtriplett.org wrote:
So, please go educate yourself on what libsystemd0 actually does,
i know what it does, and what it does - technically - is *not* the
Nathan Schulte nmschu...@gmail.com writes:
On 02/17/2015 11:49 AM, The Wanderer wrote:
libsystemd0_is_ dynamically loaded, precisely so that userspace
applications can make the decision at runtime as to what to do.
What about dynamically linked? Maybe Luke means dynamic linking
It's not the fact that you wrote such a long email that is necessarily
the problem; it's that you've shown no signs of either reading or
comprehending most of what people have actually said to you. Instead,
you launched into a new set of diatribes that show very little sign of
having actually
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 11:52:21PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 10:52 PM, Josh Triplett j...@joshtriplett.org wrote:
So, please go educate yourself on what libsystemd0 actually does,
i know what it does, and what it does - technically - is *not* the
Hi,
Quoting Didier 'OdyX' Raboud (2015-02-17 21:31:05)
Le lundi, 16 février 2015, 13.38:01 Adam Borowski a écrit :
Second, all but one (upower) of affected packages can be recompiled to
drop the dependency. If you bothered to read lists you're subscribed
to, you would probably know of my
Hi Luke,
On 17 February 2015 at 17:28, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
l...@lkcl.net wrote:
265 lines of text and counting snipped
In short, this is TL;DR. We've all got better things to waste our time
on. Please go away. Nobody's interested in this any longer regardless
of their position on
Hallo,
* Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton [Tue, Feb 17 2015, 04:28:04PM]:
so to summarise:
* the use of libselinux1 is dormant (i.e. whilst you can't remove it
without inconvenience, its use is entirely optional, right from the
kernel level)
* its development and documentation is rational and
ok, so there's been quite a discussion, both on slashdot, where
amazingly the comments that filtered to the top were insightful and
respectful, and also here on debian-devel and debian-users. as i
normally use gmane to reply (and maintain and respect threads) but
this discussion is not *on*
❦ 17 février 2015 12:57 GMT, Alastair McKinstry alastair.mckins...@sceal.ie :
The breakage of compatibility of existing systems (e.g. with /usr on a
separate partition) has left a sour taste. I spent a weekend repairing
systemd introduces no such breakage. Also, /usr on a separate partition
On Tue, 2015-02-17 at 12:57 +, Alastair McKinstry wrote:
On 17/02/2015 10:55, Vincent Bernat wrote:
❦ 17 février 2015 10:18 GMT, Alastair McKinstry
alastair.mckins...@sceal.ie :
The breakage of compatibility of existing systems (e.g. with /usr on a
separate partition) has left a
2015-02-17 13:57 GMT+01:00 Alastair McKinstry alastair.mckins...@sceal.ie:
[...]
Examination after the fact showed that if I'd had the correct packages
installed, it would have worked.
So from a Debian perspective this was 'notabug'.
(modules that were not needed day-to-day had been deleted
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 7:03 PM, Andrew Shadura and...@shadura.me wrote:
Hello,
I'd like to apologise for my mail I sent about two hours ago. I have
overreacted mainly because of the length of the email, CAPS INSIDE and
also because it's a topic which is being discussed for more than a year
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 6:25 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
l...@lkcl.net wrote:
which should help answer the question you asked: your work - fantastic
as it is - was *impossible to find*. it doesn't even remotely come up
on the radar of queries. *nobody knows what you've achieved* and
Le lundi, 16 février 2015, 13.38:01 Adam Borowski a écrit :
Second, all but one (upower) of affected packages can be recompiled to
drop the dependency. If you bothered to read lists you're subscribed
to, you would probably know of my set of deinfected packages at:
deb
Hello,
I'd like to apologise for my mail I sent about two hours ago. I have
overreacted mainly because of the length of the email, CAPS INSIDE and
also because it's a topic which is being discussed for more than a year
and which many of people here are already tired of.
I however still think
On 02/17/2015 at 11:28 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
so, marco, you wrote:
Again, you clearly do not understand well how systemd works.
marco: understanding or otherwise how systemd works is not the
point: the point is that there has been a unilateral decision across
virtually
On Feb 17 2015, Alastair McKinstry alastair.mckins...@sceal.ie wrote:
On 17/02/2015 10:55, Vincent Bernat wrote:
❦ 17 février 2015 10:18 GMT, Alastair McKinstry
alastair.mckins...@sceal.ie :
The breakage of compatibility of existing systems (e.g. with /usr on a
separate partition) has left
On Mon, 16 Feb 2015 22:31:19 +0100, m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) wrote:
As usual, the systemd critics are just misinformed. This comforts me.
because it means that their views can be easily ignored.
And as usual, you don't make any effort to change the misinformation.
Otoh, most systemd
2015-02-17 19:29 GMT+01:00 Nathan Schulte nmschu...@gmail.com:
Hi Andrew,
On 02/17/2015 11:58 AM, Andrew Shadura wrote:
I find it really rude to send emails of about 300 lines of text in
total. Extremely rude.
I for one am grateful Luke took the time to write the email he did. I
On 02/17/2015 11:49 AM, The Wanderer wrote:
You only harm your case by misusing and confusing terminology in that
way.
russ writes:
Alas, the resulting distribution is still hopelessly compromised by
the NSA, who might be even worse than Lennart Poettering. To see
how deep the tendrils of
2015-02-17 17:55 GMT+01:00 Andrew Shadura and...@shadura.me:
Hi Luke,
On 17 February 2015 at 17:28, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
l...@lkcl.net wrote:
265 lines of text and counting snipped
In short, this is TL;DR. We've all got better things to waste our time
on. Please go away. Nobody's
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 5:20 PM, claude juif claude.j...@gmail.com wrote:
2015-02-17 17:55 GMT+01:00 Andrew Shadura and...@shadura.me:
Hi Luke,
On 17 February 2015 at 17:28, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
l...@lkcl.net wrote:
265 lines of text and counting snipped
In short, this is
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 5:58 PM, Andrew Shadura and...@shadura.me wrote:
Hi,
On 17 February 2015 at 18:20, claude juif claude.j...@gmail.com wrote:
Really rude answer. Really bad.
I find it really rude to send emails of about 300 lines of text in
total. Extremely rude.
i did apologise in
adam, i apologise for not being in a position to reply in-thread: as
mentioned previously i tried (via gmane) but the entire discussion is
completely missing, and i forgot to ask people in the original post to
cc me if they would like an ongoing threaded reply.
i also notice that you removed
Hi Andrew,
On 02/17/2015 11:58 AM, Andrew Shadura wrote:
I find it really rude to send emails of about 300 lines of text in
total. Extremely rude.
I for one am grateful Luke took the time to write the email he did. I
understand it was long and I believe that most won't even take the
time to
Hi,
On 17 February 2015 at 18:20, claude juif claude.j...@gmail.com wrote:
Really rude answer. Really bad.
I find it really rude to send emails of about 300 lines of text in
total. Extremely rude.
--
Cheers,
Andrew
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To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org
with a
On 17 Feb 17:44, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
thanks for pointing that out, claude - it helps that it was someone
else who pointed out that being uncivil by asking a *person* to go
away doesn't make the *problem* go away.
andrew: i will go away only when i am satisified that the
On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 01:54:35AM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
you have the right to choose whether the situation that you are
complicit in is something that you find acceptable or whether you do
not. i leave it entirely to you to decide.
As a matter of fact we have already
But dictatorially coming in and demanding that volunteers join you in
riding your hobby horse? Please leave.
I did not see any dictatorial demands in his message, he gave the story
on how to get rid of systemd _within_ Debian, nothing else.
True, but it was bait for another systemd
On Mon, 2015-02-16 at 23:45 +0100, Mart van de Wege wrote:
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton l...@lkcl.net writes:
On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 11:42 AM, Christian Seiler christ...@iwakd.de
wrote:
Am 16.02.2015 um 02:54 schrieb Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton:
❦ 17 février 2015 10:18 GMT, Alastair McKinstry alastair.mckins...@sceal.ie :
The breakage of compatibility of existing systems (e.g. with /usr on a
separate partition) has left a sour taste. I spent a weekend repairing
systemd introduces no such breakage. Also, /usr on a separate partition
On 16/02/2015 21:31, Marco d'Itri wrote:
On Feb 16, Alastair McKinstry alastair.mckins...@sceal.ie wrote:
The breakage of compatibility of existing systems (e.g. with /usr on a
separate partition) has left a sour taste. I spent a weekend repairing
systemd introduces no such breakage. Also,
On 17/02/2015 10:55, Vincent Bernat wrote:
❦ 17 février 2015 10:18 GMT, Alastair McKinstry
alastair.mckins...@sceal.ie :
The breakage of compatibility of existing systems (e.g. with /usr on a
separate partition) has left a sour taste. I spent a weekend repairing
systemd introduces no
2015-02-16 16:26 GMT+01:00 Alastair McKinstry alastair.mckins...@sceal.ie:
[...]
An an example, i've been a long-term linux developer, DD; i've developed
and promoted Linux not just on the desktop but both in embedded systems
and in HPC systems. In all these I've been comfortable that I've
On 16/02/2015 14:41, Christian Kastner wrote:
On 2015-02-16 13:47, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 11:42 AM, Christian Seiler christ...@iwakd.de
wrote:
Am 16.02.2015 um 02:54 schrieb Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton:
On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 8:14 AM, Matthias Klumpp matth...@tenstral.net wrote:
2015-02-16 16:26 GMT+01:00 Alastair McKinstry alastair.mckins...@sceal.ie:
[...]
An an example, i've been a long-term linux developer, DD; i've developed
and promoted Linux not just on the desktop but both in
On 2015-02-16 16:26, Alastair McKinstry wrote:
On 16/02/2015 14:41, Christian Kastner wrote:
I'll hazard another guess, namely that the great vast majority of users
simply do not care. I'd be surprised if most users even know what an
init system does, much less what the differences between
On 16/02/2015 16:14, Matthias Klumpp wrote:
2015-02-16 16:26 GMT+01:00 Alastair McKinstry alastair.mckins...@sceal.ie:
[...]
An an example, i've been a long-term linux developer, DD; i've developed
and promoted Linux not just on the desktop but both in embedded systems
and in HPC systems. In
Hallo,
* Lisi Reisz [Mon, Feb 16 2015, 11:42:14AM]:
On Monday 16 February 2015 08:09:19 Marco d'Itri wrote:
to debian-users: you don't have complete choice (yet), but i have
demonstrated with a few hours work that there is a way to run
(certain) desktop environments without requiring
On Feb 16, Alastair McKinstry alastair.mckins...@sceal.ie wrote:
The breakage of compatibility of existing systems (e.g. with /usr on a
separate partition) has left a sour taste. I spent a weekend repairing
systemd introduces no such breakage. Also, /usr on a separate partition
was partially
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton l...@lkcl.net writes:
On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 11:42 AM, Christian Seiler christ...@iwakd.de wrote:
Am 16.02.2015 um 02:54 schrieb Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton:
http://lkcl.net/reports/removing_systemd_from_debian/
It's funny that when Wheezy (not Jessie!) came
On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 11:42 AM, Christian Seiler christ...@iwakd.de wrote:
Am 16.02.2015 um 02:54 schrieb Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton:
http://lkcl.net/reports/removing_systemd_from_debian/
It's funny that when Wheezy (not Jessie!) came out, nobody complained
that libsystemd-login0 (which
On 02/16/2015 at 07:47 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 11:42 AM, Christian Seiler
christ...@iwakd.de wrote:
Am 16.02.2015 um 02:54 schrieb Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton:
http://lkcl.net/reports/removing_systemd_from_debian/
It's funny that when Wheezy
On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 01:54:35AM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
to illustrate the dominance of libsystemd0, if you carry out an
apt-get --purge remove libsystemd0
First, it's actual systemd packages that are a problem, libsystemd0 is
merely a harmless library which does nothing
On 2015-02-16 13:47, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 11:42 AM, Christian Seiler christ...@iwakd.de wrote:
Am 16.02.2015 um 02:54 schrieb Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton:
http://lkcl.net/reports/removing_systemd_from_debian/
It's funny that when Wheezy (not Jessie!)
Marco d'Itri:
On Feb 16, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton l...@lkcl.net wrote:
to debian-developers: the technical issues are irrelevant (and can
always be solved over time) - it's that you are complicit in removing
people's software freedom right to choose what to run on their system:
that is
On Feb 16, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton l...@lkcl.net wrote:
to debian-users: you don't have complete choice (yet), but i have
demonstrated with a few hours work that there is a way to run
(certain) desktop environments without requiring libsystemd0 or any of
its dependencies, and after a
On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 2:52 PM, Russ Allbery wrote:
Or, alternately, you could research how and why one would use shared
libraries in a binary distribution to support optional features. But
that's boring, prosaic, and nowhere near as much fun to write about.
We were discussing optional
On Monday 16 February 2015 08:09:19 Marco d'Itri wrote:
to debian-users: you don't have complete choice (yet), but i have
demonstrated with a few hours work that there is a way to run
(certain) desktop environments without requiring libsystemd0 or any of
its dependencies, and after a
Am 16.02.2015 um 02:54 schrieb Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton:
http://lkcl.net/reports/removing_systemd_from_debian/
It's funny that when Wheezy (not Jessie!) came out, nobody complained
that libsystemd-login0 (which is now part of libsystemd0) was as a
dependency of dbus, so it is probably
http://lkcl.net/reports/removing_systemd_from_debian/
i've documented the process by which it is possible to run some of the
debian desktop window managers (TDE, fvwm, twm etc.) without the need
for systemd or libsystemd0 or any components related to systemd
whatsoever.
the process is not
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton l...@lkcl.net writes:
i've documented the process by which it is possible to run some of the
debian desktop window managers (TDE, fvwm, twm etc.) without the need
for systemd or libsystemd0 or any components related to systemd
whatsoever.
Alas, the resulting
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
to debian-developers: the technical issues are irrelevant (and can
always be solved over time) - it's that you are complicit in removing
people's software freedom right to choose what to run on their system:
People still have that right, just as they have
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