Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-23 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 11/23/2014 1:27 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 11/23/2014 12:43 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: >> On Sunday 23 November 2014 17:23:15 Tanstaafl wrote: >>> 'installing systemd, then removing >>> and installing sysvinit' - was absolutely not and never could be >>> considered the *equivalent* >>> of doing a *c

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-23 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 23 November 2014 18:27:55 Tanstaafl wrote: > Ignorance reigns supreme. > > Lisi - they are purely and simply *not* equivalents, and never can be. They _are_ equivalent. They are not the same. Try your dictionary rather than gratuitously accusing me of ignorance because I don't agree w

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-23 Thread Brian
On Sun 23 Nov 2014 at 20:13:06 +0100, Erwan David wrote: > Le 23/11/2014 20:09, Brian a écrit : > > > > It would be nice if you regarded the word "functionally" as an essential > > qualification of "equivalent" or "identical" and not dismiss it. > > > If "functionnally" is the only criteria, then

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-23 Thread Brian
On Sun 23 Nov 2014 at 14:15:17 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 11/23/2014 2:09 PM, Brian wrote: > > It would be nice if you regarded the word "functionally" as an essential > > qualification of "equivalent" or "identical" and not dismiss it. > > What would be nice is if you (and others) would stop

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-23 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/23/2014 2:09 PM, Brian wrote: > It would be nice if you regarded the word "functionally" as an essential > qualification of "equivalent" or "identical" and not dismiss it. What would be nice is if you (and others) would stop claiming that 'installing systemd, then installing sysvinit-core,

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-23 Thread Erwan David
Le 23/11/2014 20:09, Brian a écrit : > On Sun 23 Nov 2014 at 13:27:55 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: > >> On 11/23/2014 12:43 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: >>> On Sunday 23 November 2014 17:23:15 Tanstaafl wrote: 'installing systemd, then removing and installing sysvinit' - was absolutely not and never

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-23 Thread Brian
On Sun 23 Nov 2014 at 13:27:55 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 11/23/2014 12:43 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Sunday 23 November 2014 17:23:15 Tanstaafl wrote: > >> 'installing systemd, then removing > >> and installing sysvinit' - was absolutely not and never could be > >> considered the *equivalent

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-23 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/23/2014 12:43 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Sunday 23 November 2014 17:23:15 Tanstaafl wrote: >> 'installing systemd, then removing >> and installing sysvinit' - was absolutely not and never could be >> considered the *equivalent* >> of doing a *clean install with sysvinit*, >> where systemd

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 23 nov 14, 12:23:15, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 11/22/2014 10:10 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > You made a claim that installing systemd would pull in other packages > > vie dependencies, that are later difficult to remove. > > Incorrect. I never made that claim. Methinks you have me confuse

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-23 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 23 November 2014 17:23:15 Tanstaafl wrote: > 'installing systemd, then removing > and installing sysvinit' - was absolutely not and never could be > considered the *equivalent* > of doing a *clean install with sysvinit*, > where systemd is never installed in the first place. The equiva

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-23 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/22/2014 10:10 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 10 nov 14, 18:20:37, Tanstaafl wrote: >> On 11/10/2014 6:18 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: >>> Am 11.11.2014 um 00:14 schrieb Miles Fidelman: >>> Ok, then explain to me the procedure for running the installer in such a way that systemd is

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-22 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 23/11/14 02:10, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 10 nov 14, 18:20:37, Tanstaafl wrote: >> On 11/10/2014 6:18 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: >>> Am 11.11.2014 um 00:14 schrieb Miles Fidelman: >>> Ok, then explain to me the procedure for running the installer in such a way that systemd is never

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 10 nov 14, 18:20:37, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 11/10/2014 6:18 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: > > Am 11.11.2014 um 00:14 schrieb Miles Fidelman: > > > >> Ok, then explain to me the procedure for running the installer in such a > >> way that systemd is never installed, thus avoiding any potential > >

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-21 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/10/2014 6:18 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 11.11.2014 um 00:14 schrieb Miles Fidelman: > >> Ok, then explain to me the procedure for running the installer in such a >> way that systemd is never installed, thus avoiding any potential >> problems that might result from later uninstallation al

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-18 Thread Reco
On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 01:01:47AM +0100, Ludovic Meyer wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 12:41:14AM +0300, Reco wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 07:15:38PM +0100, Ludovic Meyer wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 06:29:24PM +0300, Reco wrote: > > > > Hi. > > > > > > > > On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-17 Thread Marty
On 11/17/2014 01:54 PM, Ludovic Meyer wrote: On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 08:29:28PM -0500, Marty wrote: On 11/16/2014 03:32 PM, Ludovic Meyer wrote: >On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 01:05:08PM -0500, Marty wrote: >>My point is that in a modular design nothing should be so entrenched >>as to be irreplaceabl

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-17 Thread Ludovic Meyer
On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 12:41:14AM +0300, Reco wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 07:15:38PM +0100, Ludovic Meyer wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 06:29:24PM +0300, Reco wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > > > On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 03:48:34PM +0100, Ludovic Meyer wrote: > > > > On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 09:

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-17 Thread Ludovic Meyer
On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 08:44:06AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > One thing at a time. > > On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 1:23 AM, Ludovic Meyer wrote: > > [...] > > Your definition of mainstream is strange. > > What's strange about it? Do I need to provide a link to the dictionary > for you for that? I ass

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-17 Thread Reco
On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 07:15:38PM +0100, Ludovic Meyer wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 06:29:24PM +0300, Reco wrote: > > Hi. > > > > On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 03:48:34PM +0100, Ludovic Meyer wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 09:41:23PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > > > As much as I dislike

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-17 Thread Ludovic Meyer
On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 04:09:52PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > On 11/16/2014 at 02:51 PM, Ludovic Meyer wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 01:28:35PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > > [about the Linux kernel developers] > > >> They do, however, maintain their external interfaces - rigidly so, >

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-17 Thread Erwan David
Le 16/11/2014 02:13, Ludovic Meyer a écrit : > On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 10:05:49PM +0100, Erwan David wrote: >> Le 15/11/2014 20:24, Brian a écrit : >>> On Sat 15 Nov 2014 at 11:37:14 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: >>> Brian wrote: > On Sat 15 Nov 2014 at 13:49:18 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote:

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-17 Thread Ludovic Meyer
On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 08:29:28PM -0500, Marty wrote: > On 11/16/2014 03:32 PM, Ludovic Meyer wrote: > >On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 01:05:08PM -0500, Marty wrote: > > >>My point is that in a modular design nothing should be so entrenched > >>as to be irreplaceable. Absence of an alternate should not

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-17 Thread Ludovic Meyer
On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 06:29:24PM +0300, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 03:48:34PM +0100, Ludovic Meyer wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 09:41:23PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > > As much as I dislike systemd, I'm not sure that it's a vendor > > > conspiracy to "control the L

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-17 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 03:48:34PM +0100, Ludovic Meyer wrote: > On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 09:41:23PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > As much as I dislike systemd, I'm not sure that it's a vendor > > conspiracy to "control the Linux ecosystem." Yes, redhat pays > > Lennart Poettering's salary

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 12:00:52PM -0500, Ric Moore wrote: > On 11/15/2014 08:35 PM, Ludovic Meyer wrote: > > >At the same time, most debian users likely do not really care about > >transition > >plan and systemd. It was widely published everywhere in March and yet, no > >one would have cared if

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 10:14:17PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 8:51 PM, Andrei POPESCU > wrote: > > On Vi, 14 nov 14, 22:53:36, Joel Rees wrote: > >> > >> If you can't deal with it, snip it? > > > > I don't think it brings anything useful to a discussion on -user. That's > >

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-16 Thread Marty
On 11/16/2014 03:32 PM, Ludovic Meyer wrote: On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 01:05:08PM -0500, Marty wrote: My point is that in a modular design nothing should be so entrenched as to be irreplaceable. Absence of an alternate should not normally indicate impossibility of an alternate, but some discussi

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-16 Thread Joel Rees
One thing at a time. On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 1:23 AM, Ludovic Meyer wrote: > [...] > Your definition of mainstream is strange. What's strange about it? Do I need to provide a link to the dictionary for you for that? I assume not. Given a community, there is a mainstream within that community.

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-16 Thread The Wanderer
On 11/16/2014 at 02:51 PM, Ludovic Meyer wrote: > On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 01:28:35PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: [about the Linux kernel developers] >> They do, however, maintain their external interfaces - rigidly so, >> sometimes to what others might call the point of insanity. An >> intention

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-16 Thread Ludovic Meyer
On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 01:05:08PM -0500, Marty wrote: > On 11/16/2014 05:26 AM, Laurent Bigonville wrote: > >Le Sat, 15 Nov 2014 20:21:49 -0500, > >Marty a écrit : > > > >>On 11/15/2014 06:49 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >[...] > >>> > >>> At least some of people rejecting systemd demand that it

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-16 Thread Ludovic Meyer
On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 01:28:35PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > On 11/16/2014 at 11:23 AM, Ludovic Meyer wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 09:43:23PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > > > >> I have been informed off-list that some might misinterpret > >> something I wrote here, so I will attempt to cl

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-16 Thread The Wanderer
On 11/16/2014 at 11:23 AM, Ludovic Meyer wrote: > On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 09:43:23PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > >> I have been informed off-list that some might misinterpret >> something I wrote here, so I will attempt to clarify a few things. >> >> On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Joel Rees >>

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-16 Thread Marty
On 11/16/2014 05:26 AM, Laurent Bigonville wrote: Le Sat, 15 Nov 2014 20:21:49 -0500, Marty a écrit : On 11/15/2014 06:49 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: [...] > > At least some of people rejecting systemd demand that it be removed > completely, including libsystemd. How is it pro-choice to forbi

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-16 Thread Ric Moore
On 11/15/2014 08:35 PM, Ludovic Meyer wrote: At the same time, most debian users likely do not really care about transition plan and systemd. It was widely published everywhere in March and yet, no one would have cared if this mattered ? I installed systemd to Jessie as soon as it was announc

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-16 Thread Miles Fidelman
Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 16 nov 14, 10:18:24, Miles Fidelman wrote: Let me also turn the question back at you: Have you considered, just for a fraction of a second, that a migration to systemd, could, in fact, make some systems LESS reliable and understandable? Sure I did. systemd is not b

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-16 Thread Ludovic Meyer
On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 09:43:23PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > I have been informed off-list that some might misinterpret something I > wrote here, so I will attempt to clarify a few things. > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Joel Rees wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 11:04 PM, Tanstaafl > >

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-16 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 16 nov 14, 10:18:24, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > Let me also turn the question back at you: > > Have you considered, just for a fraction of a second, that a migration > to systemd, could, in fact, make some systems LESS reliable and > understandable? Sure I did. systemd is not bug-free and

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-16 Thread Miles Fidelman
Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 15 nov 14, 11:37:14, Miles Fidelman wrote: For some (many?) of us, systemd represents no gain, and significant operational impact (time required to deal with changes). Have you considered, just for a fraction of a second, that a migration to systemd, however painful

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-16 Thread Ludovic Meyer
On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 09:41:23PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Marty wrote: > >On 11/15/2014 07:45 PM, Ludovic Meyer wrote: > >>On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 12:26:26AM -0500, Marty wrote: > >>>On 11/11/2014 02:16 PM, Brian wrote: > On Tue 11 Nov 2014 at 12:36:14 -0500, Marty wrote: > > >

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-16 Thread Ludovic Meyer
On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 09:25:01PM -0500, Marty wrote: > On 11/15/2014 07:45 PM, Ludovic Meyer wrote: > >On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 12:26:26AM -0500, Marty wrote: > >>On 11/11/2014 02:16 PM, Brian wrote: > >>>On Tue 11 Nov 2014 at 12:36:14 -0500, Marty wrote: > >>> > On 11/11/2014 12:07 PM, Lauren

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-16 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 15 nov 14, 11:37:14, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > For some (many?) of us, systemd represents no gain, and significant > operational impact (time required to deal with changes). Have you considered, just for a fraction of a second, that a migration to systemd, however painful it may prove, co

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-16 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 16 nov 14, 15:32:58, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > My mental image about Debian and FOSS is more of an eco-systemd, where ^^ > survival of the fittest applies. That typo is just too funny :p Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wik

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-16 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 15 nov 14, 17:21:22, Paul E Condon wrote: > > Another topic: > My reading of the man page for apt-get seems to say that there > is no way to purge the configuration file of packages that were pulled > in to satisfy a dependency and subsequently autoremoved. I hope this > is an artifact of p

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-16 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 15 nov 14, 21:25:01, Marty wrote: > > I don't think Debian (or FOSS, for that matter) was ever about a > winner-take-all approach to software choice. That seems to have originated > in the commercial distributions, which have a financial interest in a) > controlling users and b) controlling

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-16 Thread The Wanderer
On 11/16/2014 at 05:58 AM, Brian wrote: > On Sat 15 Nov 2014 at 19:31:27 -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 11/15/2014 at 07:21 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: >> >>> Yet another topic: It should be possible to install systemd on a >>> system that already has some other init system installed on it. >>>

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-16 Thread Joel Rees
I have been informed off-list that some might misinterpret something I wrote here, so I will attempt to clarify a few things. On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Joel Rees wrote: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 11:04 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: >> On 11/12/2014 5:18 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >>> On Mi, 12 nov

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-16 Thread Brian
On Sun 16 Nov 2014 at 00:23:24 +, Martin Read wrote: > On 15/11/14 23:04, Paul E Condon wrote: > >If one could absolutely rely on apt-get always getting it right, then > > > >"apt-get install -y sysvinit-core" > > > >could always be used to remove systemd even from a system that has > >been bo

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-16 Thread Brian
On Sat 15 Nov 2014 at 19:31:27 -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > On 11/15/2014 at 07:21 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > Yet another topic: It should be possible to install systemd on a > > system that already has some other init system installed on it. This > > should be tested, but how? > > If I unde

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-16 Thread Laurent Bigonville
Le Sat, 15 Nov 2014 20:21:49 -0500, Marty a écrit : > On 11/15/2014 06:49 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: [...] > > > > At least some of people rejecting systemd demand that it be removed > > completely, including libsystemd. How is it pro-choice to forbid me > > from being able to use a software at it

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-15 Thread Miles Fidelman
Marty wrote: On 11/15/2014 07:45 PM, Ludovic Meyer wrote: On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 12:26:26AM -0500, Marty wrote: On 11/11/2014 02:16 PM, Brian wrote: >On Tue 11 Nov 2014 at 12:36:14 -0500, Marty wrote: > >>On 11/11/2014 12:07 PM, Laurent Bigonville wrote: >>> >>>There are no functional differen

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-15 Thread Marty
On 11/15/2014 07:45 PM, Ludovic Meyer wrote: On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 12:26:26AM -0500, Marty wrote: On 11/11/2014 02:16 PM, Brian wrote: >On Tue 11 Nov 2014 at 12:36:14 -0500, Marty wrote: > >>On 11/11/2014 12:07 PM, Laurent Bigonville wrote: >>> >>>There are no functional differences between an

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-15 Thread Ludovic Meyer
On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 03:43:40PM -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 11/15/2014 7:20 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Vi, 14 nov 14, 08:55:47, Tanstaafl wrote: > >> On 11/14/2014 5:26 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >>> It was claimed that sysvinit was the default *and only* (emphasis not > >>> mine) ini

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-15 Thread Marty
On 11/15/2014 06:49 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 14 nov 14, 08:04:00, Marty wrote: On 11/14/2014 05:26 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >On Vi, 14 nov 14, 08:59:11, Joel Rees wrote: Jumping in here as myself, not Joel's tag-team member. :) >"Debian" as an entity doesn't really do much. There are

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-15 Thread Ludovic Meyer
On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 10:05:49PM +0100, Erwan David wrote: > Le 15/11/2014 20:24, Brian a écrit : > > On Sat 15 Nov 2014 at 11:37:14 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > > >> Brian wrote: > >>> On Sat 15 Nov 2014 at 13:49:18 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >>> > On Vi, 14 nov 14, 08:04:00, Marty

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-15 Thread Ludovic Meyer
On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 11:37:14AM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Brian wrote: > >On Sat 15 Nov 2014 at 13:49:18 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > >>On Vi, 14 nov 14, 08:04:00, Marty wrote: > >>>By the same token systemd is a major waste with no real gain. It duplicates > >>>equivalent modular alt

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-15 Thread Ludovic Meyer
On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 12:26:26AM -0500, Marty wrote: > On 11/11/2014 02:16 PM, Brian wrote: > >On Tue 11 Nov 2014 at 12:36:14 -0500, Marty wrote: > > > >>On 11/11/2014 12:07 PM, Laurent Bigonville wrote: > >>> > >>>There are no functional differences between an installation with > >>>sysvinit-cor

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-15 Thread The Wanderer
On 11/15/2014 at 07:21 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 2014_1807+0100, Laurent Bigonville wrote: >> There are no functional differences between an installation with >> sysvinit-core out of the box or an install where sysvinit-core is >> installed later, this is a fact. > > Theory tells us this

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-15 Thread Martin Read
On 16/11/14 00:21, Paul E Condon wrote: It should be possible to install systemd on a system that already has some other init system installed on it. This should be tested, but how? The obvious way is to upgrade a wheezy system, following the "upgrade to jessie while keeping sysvinit as the in

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-15 Thread Martin Read
On 15/11/14 23:04, Paul E Condon wrote: If one could absolutely rely on apt-get always getting it right, then "apt-get install -y sysvinit-core" could always be used to remove systemd even from a system that has been booted into systemd and running, and not just in the context of a pre-seed. Ri

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-15 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2014_1807+0100, Laurent Bigonville wrote: > Le Tue, 11 Nov 2014 07:42:33 -0500, > Tanstaafl a écrit : > > > On 11/10/2014 6:18 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: > > > Am 11.11.2014 um 00:14 schrieb Miles Fidelman: > > >> Ok, then explain to me the procedure for running the installer in > > >> such

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-15 Thread The Wanderer
On 11/15/2014 at 06:37 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: > I suggest that the word 'default' not be used any more in this > discussion. It serves only to obfuscate the nature of the problem. The word "default" is used in the discussion because the initial decision made by the Debian project in regard to t

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-15 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2014_1200-0500, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 11/11/2014 11:38 AM, The Wanderer wrote: > > Other people subscribe to a meaning of "default" which, e.g., assumes > > only that systemd will get installed as PID 1 unless some action is > > taken to prevent it from getting so installed. That seems like

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-15 Thread Brian
On Sat 15 Nov 2014 at 19:24:49 +, Brian wrote: > Upgrading > - > >After changing sources.list and an 'apt-get update' do > > apt-get install sysvinit-core systemd-shim > >Then proceed with an upgrade and dist-upgrade. > > New Install > --- > >Use the apt-g

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-15 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2014_0733-0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Brian wrote: > >On Tue 11 Nov 2014 at 02:02:07 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > > > >>Am 11.11.2014 um 01:58 schrieb Miles Fidelman: > >> > >>>Michael Biebl wrote: > Sorry, but that is not what I asked for. I asked for "specifics". > Your answer d

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-15 Thread Miles Fidelman
Brian wrote: On Sat 15 Nov 2014 at 11:37:14 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: Brian wrote: On Sat 15 Nov 2014 at 13:49:18 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 14 nov 14, 08:04:00, Marty wrote: By the same token systemd is a major waste with no real gain. It duplicates equivalent modular alternati

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-15 Thread Erwan David
Le 15/11/2014 20:24, Brian a écrit : > On Sat 15 Nov 2014 at 11:37:14 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > >> Brian wrote: >>> On Sat 15 Nov 2014 at 13:49:18 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >>> On Vi, 14 nov 14, 08:04:00, Marty wrote: > By the same token systemd is a major waste with no real gain.

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-15 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/15/2014 7:20 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 14 nov 14, 08:55:47, Tanstaafl wrote: >> On 11/14/2014 5:26 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >>> It was claimed that sysvinit was the default *and only* (emphasis not >>> mine) init, and therefore no selection was needed, but now that there >>> are

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-15 Thread Brian
On Sat 15 Nov 2014 at 11:37:14 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Brian wrote: > >On Sat 15 Nov 2014 at 13:49:18 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > >>On Vi, 14 nov 14, 08:04:00, Marty wrote: > >>>By the same token systemd is a major waste with no real gain. It duplicates > >>>equivalent modular altern

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-15 Thread Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis
On 15-11-2014 16:59, Brian wrote: On Sat 15 Nov 2014 at 15:22:06 +0200, Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis wrote: On 15-11-2014 14:17, Brian wrote: >On Sat 15 Nov 2014 at 13:49:18 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >>On Vi, 14 nov 14, 08:04:00, Marty wrote: >>> >>> By the same token systemd is a major waste

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-15 Thread Miles Fidelman
Brian wrote: On Sat 15 Nov 2014 at 13:49:18 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 14 nov 14, 08:04:00, Marty wrote: By the same token systemd is a major waste with no real gain. It duplicates equivalent modular alternatives, and also requires unnecessary effort to repair damage from excessive co

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-15 Thread Miles Fidelman
Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 14 nov 14, 07:55:23, Miles Fidelman wrote: Note that there seems to be an ongoing issue with whether or not the installer will issue a warning before a package dependency leads to an automatic change to systemd. See bugs 765803 and 762194. "installer

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-15 Thread Joel Rees
2014/11/15 22:57 "Andrei POPESCU" : > > On Sb, 15 nov 14, 22:05:58, Joel Rees wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 9:20 PM, Andrei POPESCU > > wrote: > > > [(clipping too much, I now realize)] > > > The transition plan[5] has been posted on -devel since July with no > > > objections. > > > > > > [5]

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-15 Thread Brian
On Sat 15 Nov 2014 at 15:22:06 +0200, Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis wrote: > On 15-11-2014 14:17, Brian wrote: > >On Sat 15 Nov 2014 at 13:49:18 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > >>On Vi, 14 nov 14, 08:04:00, Marty wrote: > >>> > >>> By the same token systemd is a major waste with no real gain. It >

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 15 nov 14, 22:05:58, Joel Rees wrote: > On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 9:20 PM, Andrei POPESCU > wrote: > > [(clipping too much, I now realize)] > > The transition plan[5] has been posted on -devel since July with no > > objections. > > > > [5] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/07/msg0061

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-15 Thread Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis
On 15-11-2014 14:17, Brian wrote: On Sat 15 Nov 2014 at 13:49:18 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 14 nov 14, 08:04:00, Marty wrote: > > By the same token systemd is a major waste with no real gain. It duplicates > equivalent modular alternatives, and also requires unnecessary effort to > rep

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-15 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 8:51 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 14 nov 14, 22:53:36, Joel Rees wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 7:26 PM, Andrei POPESCU >> wrote: >> > On Vi, 14 nov 14, 08:59:11, Joel Rees wrote: >> > > [...] >> > [snip another wall of text about engineering principles] >> >> And

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-15 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 9:20 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > [(clipping too much, I now realize)] > The transition plan[5] has been posted on -devel since July with no > objections. > > [5] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/07/msg00611.html My impression is that objections logged to that thr

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 14 nov 14, 08:55:47, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 11/14/2014 5:26 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > It was claimed that sysvinit was the default *and only* (emphasis not > > mine) init, and therefore no selection was needed, but now that there > > are several a selection suddenly is needed. > > I d

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-15 Thread Brian
On Sat 15 Nov 2014 at 13:49:18 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 14 nov 14, 08:04:00, Marty wrote: > > > > By the same token systemd is a major waste with no real gain. It duplicates > > equivalent modular alternatives, and also requires unnecessary effort to > > repair damage from excessive

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-15 Thread Ron
On Sat, 15 Nov 2014 13:49:18 +0200 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > In my opinion the best "defence" against a monopoly[1] of any kind is to > develop competitive alternatives. We have seen how well that worked with MS Windows over the years... Cheers, Ron. -- Nada es tan peligroso

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 14 nov 14, 22:53:36, Joel Rees wrote: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 7:26 PM, Andrei POPESCU > wrote: > > On Vi, 14 nov 14, 08:59:11, Joel Rees wrote: > > > [...] > > [snip another wall of text about engineering principles] > > And, thus, once again, > > > > The engineering question keeps gett

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 14 nov 14, 08:04:00, Marty wrote: > On 11/14/2014 05:26 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >On Vi, 14 nov 14, 08:59:11, Joel Rees wrote: > > > Jumping in here as myself, not Joel's tag-team member. :) > > >"Debian" as an entity doesn't really do much. There are only one or > >several volunteers

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 14 nov 14, 13:27:22, Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote: > > And all this says nothing about big servers, which need some > magnitudes more of reliability, stability and scaling. E.g. not using > plain text files for logs causes problems in the long run and in daily > work. The default setting

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 14 nov 14, 07:55:23, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > Note that there seems to be an ongoing issue with whether or not the > installer will issue a warning before a package dependency leads to an > automatic change to systemd. See bugs 765803 and 762194. "installer" usually means De

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-14 Thread Joel Rees
2014/11/14 23:12 "Tanstaafl" : > > On 11/14/2014 5:26 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > It was claimed that sysvinit was the default *and only* (emphasis not > > mine) init, and therefore no selection was needed, but now that there > > are several a selection suddenly is needed. > > I don't recall cla

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-14 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/14/2014 5:26 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > It was claimed that sysvinit was the default *and only* (emphasis not > mine) init, and therefore no selection was needed, but now that there > are several a selection suddenly is needed. I don't recall claiming that sysvinit was the *only* init, n

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-14 Thread Ron
On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 13:10:22 + Lisi Reisz wrote: > > Do you remember the Gnome/KDE war? Now > > we have two great desktop. Let's not impose by law an init system. > > Yes, but Gnome is the default and you have to be an "advanced user" to get > KDE. Not really, you just have to choose whe

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-14 Thread Joel Rees
On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 7:26 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 14 nov 14, 08:59:11, Joel Rees wrote: > > [...] > [snip another wall of text about engineering principles] And, thus, once again, > > The engineering question keeps getting sidetracked by people who > > assert that we are talking ab

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-14 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 14 November 2014 12:27:22 Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote: > Am 14.11.2014 um 11:26 schrieb Andrei POPESCU : > > Again, I can't comment on Fedora, but my Raspberry Pi runs systemd just > > fine. Also my laptop running is quite far from being a speed monster. > > On my two Raspberries I do not

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-14 Thread Laurent Bigonville
Le Fri, 14 Nov 2014 12:26:09 +0200, Andrei POPESCU a écrit : > On Vi, 14 nov 14, 08:59:11, Joel Rees wrote: [...] > > > So Fedora is not, itself, really ready yet, except for two groups, a > > certain group of workstation users who want and are willing to use > > fairly new, relatively high-end

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-14 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 14 November 2014 11:42:32 Dan wrote: > Do you remember the Gnome/KDE war? Now > we have two great desktop. Let's not impose by law an init system. Yes, but Gnome is the default and you have to be an "advanced user" to get KDE. And anyway, some of us want neither and have to go to even

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-14 Thread Marty
On 11/14/2014 05:26 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 14 nov 14, 08:59:11, Joel Rees wrote: Jumping in here as myself, not Joel's tag-team member. :) "Debian" as an entity doesn't really do much. There are only one or several volunteers who start doing things. Setting up a separate "port" for

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-14 Thread Miles Fidelman
Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis wrote: On 14-11-2014 12:26, Andrei POPESCU wrote: < snip > However, you and several others are rejecting systemd on ideological grounds. There's not much that can be done about that, short or re-implementing systemd according to your vision. I personally reject the d

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-14 Thread Miles Fidelman
Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote: Am 13.11.2014 um 21:49 schrieb Andrei POPESCU : On Jo, 13 nov 14, 10:49:44, Amodelo wrote: Sorry, used the wrong account for answering previously. I am also not interested in testing an ugly work-around (install unwanted A, replace it by B). My servers seem to ha

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-14 Thread Helmut Wollmersdorfer
Am 14.11.2014 um 11:26 schrieb Andrei POPESCU : > Again, I can't comment on Fedora, but my Raspberry Pi runs systemd just > fine. Also my laptop running is quite far from being a speed monster. On my two Raspberries I do not care. On a laptop it depends on your usage profile, and what your req

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-14 Thread Helmut Wollmersdorfer
Am 13.11.2014 um 21:49 schrieb Andrei POPESCU : > On Jo, 13 nov 14, 10:49:44, Amodelo wrote: Sorry, used the wrong account for answering previously. >> >> I am also not interested in testing an ugly work-around (install >> unwanted A, replace it by B). My servers seem to have similar >> conf

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-14 Thread Dan
On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 14 nov 14, 08:59:11, Joel Rees wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 11:04 PM, Tanstaafl >> wrote: >> > On 11/12/2014 5:18 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> >> On Mi, 12 nov 14, 15:43:09, Tanstaafl wrote: >> >>> >> >>> Sounds good to me, b

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-14 Thread Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis
On 14-11-2014 12:26, Andrei POPESCU wrote: < snip > However, you and several others are rejecting systemd on ideological grounds. There's not much that can be done about that, short or re-implementing systemd according to your vision. I personally reject the design of systemd. To paraphrase

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 14 nov 14, 08:59:11, Joel Rees wrote: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 11:04 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: > > On 11/12/2014 5:18 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >> On Mi, 12 nov 14, 15:43:09, Tanstaafl wrote: > >>> > >>> Sounds good to me, but in reality, since the default *and only* init > >>> system for th

engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-13 Thread Joel Rees
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 11:04 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 11/12/2014 5:18 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> On Mi, 12 nov 14, 15:43:09, Tanstaafl wrote: >>> >>> Sounds good to me, but in reality, since the default *and only* init >>> system for the last very many years was Sysvinit (this extremely salie

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