Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 03 September 2014 06:56:53 Erwan David wrote: On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 07:25:19AM CEST, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com said: On Wednesday 03 September 2014 06:19:15 Doug wrote: OK, guys. What is the best way to communicate with developers, not just in the Debian crew, but

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-03 Thread Ric Moore
On 09/03/2014 01:19 AM, Doug wrote: On 09/03/2014 12:50 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: On 9/3/14, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2014 17:06:58 Steve Litt wrote: So, Lisi, is it your contention that the developers don't look at this list, and don't care what's

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-03 Thread Miles Fidelman
Doug wrote: On 09/03/2014 12:50 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: On 9/3/14, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2014 17:06:58 Steve Litt wrote: So, Lisi, is it your contention that the developers don't look at this list, and don't care what's written on it? By and large,

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-03 Thread Brian
On Wed 03 Sep 2014 at 07:54:25 +0200, Erwan David wrote: On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 11:14:52PM CEST, Martin Read zen75...@zen.co.uk said: On 02/09/14 19:55, Jimmy Johnson wrote: Erwan David wrote: aptitude remove systemd - downgrade almost everything to stable... Ok no program present

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-03 Thread Martin Read
On 03/09/14 06:54, Erwan David wrote: lauching systemd-logind (which they do) is actually requiring it, no ? Point. (I find myself instinctively reading requiring systemd as requiring systemd as PID 1, so I tend to say requiring a component of the systemd suite when talking about things that

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-03 Thread Andre N Batista
On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 07:25:21AM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 03 September 2014 06:56:53 Erwan David wrote: On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 07:25:19AM CEST, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com said: On Wednesday 03 September 2014 06:19:15 Doug wrote: OK, guys. What is the best way to

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-02 Thread KD
Dan Ritter dsr at randomstring.org writes: Reading: http://0pointer.net/blog/revisiting-how-we-put-together-linux-systems.html systemd's upstream is explicitly interested in taking over all Linux distros, not in the minor sense of being supported on every system but in the major sense of

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-02 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 07:22:48AM +, KD wrote: Dan Ritter dsr at randomstring.org writes: Reading: http://0pointer.net/blog/revisiting-how-we-put-together-linux-systems.html systemd's upstream is explicitly interested in taking over all Linux distros, not in the minor sense of

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-02 Thread Joe
On Tue, 2 Sep 2014 23:44:49 +1200 Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 07:22:48AM +, KD wrote: Dan Ritter dsr at randomstring.org writes: Reading: http://0pointer.net/blog/revisiting-how-we-put-together-linux-systems.html systemd's

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-02 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 02 September 2014 14:52:46 Joe wrote: On Tue, 2 Sep 2014 23:44:49 +1200 Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 07:22:48AM +, KD wrote: Dan Ritter dsr at randomstring.org writes: Reading:

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-02 Thread Miles Fidelman
Lisi Reisz wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2014 14:52:46 Joe wrote: On Tue, 2 Sep 2014 23:44:49 +1200 Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 07:22:48AM +, KD wrote: Dan Ritter dsr at randomstring.org writes: Reading:

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-02 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 02/09/14 16:14, Miles Fidelman wrote: Lisi Reisz wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2014 14:52:46 Joe wrote: On Tue, 2 Sep 2014 23:44:49 +1200 Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 07:22:48AM +, KD wrote: Dan Ritter dsr at randomstring.org writes:

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-02 Thread Erwan David
On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 04:05:53PM CEST, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com said: On Tuesday 02 September 2014 14:52:46 Joe wrote: On Tue, 2 Sep 2014 23:44:49 +1200 Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 07:22:48AM +, KD wrote: Dan Ritter dsr at

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-02 Thread Bzzzz
On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 16:41:26 +0200 Tony van der Hoff t...@vanderhoff.org wrote: Then again, endless spreading of FUD on a list that is powerless to do anything about the situation, could, and should, be regarded as trolling. There is a good reason to keep FUD heated: the bigger and the deeper

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-02 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 02/09/14 16:14, Miles Fidelman wrote: Lisi Reisz wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2014 14:52:46 Joe wrote: On Tue, 2 Sep 2014 23:44:49 +1200 Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 07:22:48AM +, KD wrote: Dan Ritter dsr at

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-02 Thread Bzzzz
On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 08:05:33 -0700 Jimmy Johnson field.engin...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe you should do some reading and maybe run Debian testing http://igurublog.wordpress.com/2014/04/03/tso-and-linus-and-the-impotent-rage-against-systemd/ Hmm, this (sad) article raises a crucial question

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-02 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 2 Sep 2014 15:05:53 +0100 Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2014 14:52:46 Joe wrote: On Tue, 2 Sep 2014 23:44:49 +1200 So is this vision of the future not likely to affect Debian, then? I get the impression it is expected to do so. This endless

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-02 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 16:41:26 +0200 Tony van der Hoff t...@vanderhoff.org wrote: Then again, endless spreading of FUD on a list that is powerless to do anything about the situation, could, and should, be regarded as trolling. We have seen countless threads on the supposed evilness of

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-02 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 02 September 2014 17:06:58 Steve Litt wrote: So, Lisi, is it your contention that the developers don't look at this list, and don't care what's written on it? By and large, yes. If you want to communicate with developers, communicate with developers. Some of them hang around here.

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-02 Thread Curt
On 2014-09-02, B lazyvi...@gmx.com wrote: Hmm, this (sad) article raises a crucial question that supersedes those about systemd: can we _really_ *trust* Debian to defend us against morons, such as nsa and other assholes' agencies? You should worry more about your own assholes and

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-02 Thread Erwan David
Le 02/09/2014 19:03, Lisi Reisz a écrit : On Tuesday 02 September 2014 17:06:58 Steve Litt wrote: So, Lisi, is it your contention that the developers don't look at this list, and don't care what's written on it? By and large, yes. If you want to communicate with developers, communicate with

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-02 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 02 September 2014 18:06:29 Erwan David wrote: Please read the article pointed by the OP. I have. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-02 Thread John Hasler
Erwan David writes: Please read the article pointed by the OP. Nobody is going to impose any changes on the Debian packaging system. That's a nonstarter. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-02 Thread Erwan David
Le 02/09/2014 19:29, John Hasler a écrit : Erwan David writes: Please read the article pointed by the OP. Nobody is going to impose any changes on the Debian packaging system. That's a nonstarter. Even if in some later version systemd works only with this kind of scheme ? -- To

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-02 Thread Bzzzz
On Tue, 2 Sep 2014 17:04:45 + (UTC) Curt cu...@free.fr wrote: You should worry more about your own assholes and morons (of course, that doesn't sell to the gallery as well, now does it?)

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-02 Thread Bzzzz
On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 19:06:29 +0200 Erwan David er...@rail.eu.org wrote: So which lists are you speaking of ? The systemd list, may be? OK, I -[] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-02 Thread Bzzzz
On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 19:33:12 +0200 Erwan David er...@rail.eu.org wrote: Even if in some later version systemd works only with this kind of scheme ? I join John about that, Debian as the very best packaging system, moving to RPM would clobber any hope to stay in the lead, despite the A grade

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-02 Thread Erwan David
Le 02/09/2014 19:38, B a écrit : On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 19:33:12 +0200 Erwan David er...@rail.eu.org wrote: Even if in some later version systemd works only with this kind of scheme ? I join John about that, Debian as the very best packaging system, moving to RPM would clobber any hope to

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-02 Thread John Hasler
Erwan David writes: Please read the article pointed by the OP. I wrote: Nobody is going to impose any changes on the Debian packaging system. That's a nonstarter. Erwan David writes: Even if in some later version systemd works only with this kind of scheme ? Yes. Remember the LSB? What

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-02 Thread Erwan David
Le 02/09/2014 19:58, John Hasler a écrit : Erwan David writes: Please read the article pointed by the OP. I wrote: Nobody is going to impose any changes on the Debian packaging system. That's a nonstarter. Erwan David writes: Even if in some later version systemd works only with this kind

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-02 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 2 Sep 2014 19:38:42 +0200 B lazyvi...@gmx.com wrote: On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 19:33:12 +0200 Erwan David er...@rail.eu.org wrote: Even if in some later version systemd works only with this kind of scheme ? I join John about that, Debian as the very best packaging system, moving

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-02 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 2 Sep 2014 18:03:41 +0100 Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: Do stop bellyaching to no avail. If you feel that Lennart should be stopped, find a way of stopping him. But this is not it. Lisi He who forgets history is bound to repeat it. Mid to late 1990's, lots of people

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-02 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 12:29:06 -0500 John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com wrote: Erwan David writes: Please read the article pointed by the OP. Nobody is going to impose any changes on the Debian packaging system. That's a nonstarter. Four years ago, would you have thought that an init system

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-02 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Erwan David wrote: aptitude remove systemd - downgrade almost everything to stable... Ok no program present in stable should depend on systemd... that's a lot of bugs to open... Erwan, the whole of my Wheezy desktop system as I know it seems to be locked into 'libsystemd-login0' and

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-02 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Then again, endless spreading of FUD on a list that is powerless to do anything about the situation, could, and should, be regarded as trolling. +1. Please stop! - Clemens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-02 Thread Brian
On Tue 02 Sep 2014 at 11:55:24 -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: Erwan David wrote: aptitude remove systemd - downgrade almost everything to stable... Ok no program present in stable should depend on systemd... that's a lot of bugs to open... Erwan, the whole of my Wheezy desktop system as

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-02 Thread Martin Read
On 02/09/14 19:55, Jimmy Johnson wrote: Erwan David wrote: aptitude remove systemd - downgrade almost everything to stable... Ok no program present in stable should depend on systemd... that's a lot of bugs to open... Erwan, the whole of my Wheezy desktop system as I know it seems to be

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-02 Thread Miles Fidelman
Martin Read wrote: On 02/09/14 19:55, Jimmy Johnson wrote: Erwan David wrote: aptitude remove systemd - downgrade almost everything to stable... Ok no program present in stable should depend on systemd... that's a lot of bugs to open... Erwan, the whole of my Wheezy desktop system as I

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-02 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 9/3/14, Tony van der Hoff t...@vanderhoff.org wrote: On 02/09/14 16:14, Miles Fidelman wrote: Lisi Reisz wrote: This endless verbosity will not make one iota of difference. Lobby those who might be able to do something if you feel like it, e.g. the developers. But it really doesn't

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-02 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 9/3/14, Erwan David er...@rail.eu.org wrote: On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 04:05:53PM CEST, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com said: This endless verbosity will not make one iota of difference. Lobby those who might be able to do something if you feel like it, e.g. the developers. But it really

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-02 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 9/3/14, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 16:41:26 +0200 Tony van der Hoff t...@vanderhoff.org wrote: Then again, endless spreading of FUD on a list that is powerless to do anything about the situation, could, and should, be regarded as trolling. We have

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-02 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 9/3/14, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2014 17:06:58 Steve Litt wrote: So, Lisi, is it your contention that the developers don't look at this list, and don't care what's written on it? By and large, yes. If you want to communicate with developers,

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-02 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 9/3/14, Curt cu...@free.fr wrote: On 2014-09-02, B lazyvi...@gmx.com wrote: Hmm, this (sad) article raises a crucial question that supersedes those about systemd: can we _really_ *trust* Debian to defend us against morons, such as nsa and other assholes' agencies? You should worry

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-02 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 9/3/14, Erwan David er...@rail.eu.org wrote: Le 02/09/2014 19:03, Lisi Reisz a écrit : On Tuesday 02 September 2014 17:06:58 Steve Litt wrote: So, Lisi, is it your contention that the developers don't look at this list, and don't care what's written on it? By and large, yes. If you want

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-02 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 9/3/14, Clemens Eisserer linuxhi...@gmail.com wrote: Then again, endless spreading of FUD on a list that is powerless to do anything about the situation, could, and should, be regarded as trolling. +1. Please stop! -1. Please continue. At least one new thread a week bashing systemd. We

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-02 Thread Doug
On 09/03/2014 12:50 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: On 9/3/14, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2014 17:06:58 Steve Litt wrote: So, Lisi, is it your contention that the developers don't look at this list, and don't care what's written on it? By and large, yes. If

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-02 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 03 September 2014 06:19:15 Doug wrote: OK, guys. What is the best way to communicate with developers, not just in the Debian crew, but devs from other popular systems, like Ubuntu, PCLOS, Centos, etc. The Debian ones, on the Debian developers list. Though I doubt they would

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-02 Thread Erwan David
On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 11:14:52PM CEST, Martin Read zen75...@zen.co.uk said: On 02/09/14 19:55, Jimmy Johnson wrote: Erwan David wrote: aptitude remove systemd - downgrade almost everything to stable... Ok no program present in stable should depend on systemd... that's a lot of bugs to

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-02 Thread Erwan David
On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 02:22:24AM CEST, Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net said: Martin Read wrote: On 02/09/14 19:55, Jimmy Johnson wrote: Erwan David wrote: aptitude remove systemd - downgrade almost everything to stable... Ok no program present in stable should depend on

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-02 Thread Erwan David
On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 07:25:19AM CEST, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com said: On Wednesday 03 September 2014 06:19:15 Doug wrote: OK, guys. What is the best way to communicate with developers, not just in the Debian crew, but devs from other popular systems, like Ubuntu, PCLOS, Centos,

embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-01 Thread Dan Ritter
Reading: http://0pointer.net/blog/revisiting-how-we-put-together-linux-systems.html systemd's upstream is explicitly interested in taking over all Linux distros, not in the minor sense of being supported on every system but in the major sense of making package management conform to their own

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-01 Thread Brian
On Mon 01 Sep 2014 at 13:26:09 -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: Reading: http://0pointer.net/blog/revisiting-how-we-put-together-linux-systems.html systemd's upstream is explicitly interested in taking over all Linux distros, not in the minor sense of being supported on every system but in the

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-01 Thread Erwan David
Le 01/09/2014 20:29, Brian a écrit : On Mon 01 Sep 2014 at 13:26:09 -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: Reading: http://0pointer.net/blog/revisiting-how-we-put-together-linux-systems.html systemd's upstream is explicitly interested in taking over all Linux distros, not in the minor sense of being

[OT] - Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-01 Thread Bzzzz
On Mon, 1 Sep 2014 13:26:09 -0400 Dan Ritter d...@randomstring.org wrote: http://0pointer.net/blog/revisiting-how-we-put-together-linux-systems.html An article written by… one of the systemd devs……… We happen to learn that it'll also be _dependent_ on BTRFS and (may be?, when?) support EXT4

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-01 Thread Brian
On Mon 01 Sep 2014 at 20:34:59 +0200, Erwan David wrote: Le 01/09/2014 20:29, Brian a écrit : On Mon 01 Sep 2014 at 13:26:09 -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: Reading: http://0pointer.net/blog/revisiting-how-we-put-together-linux-systems.html systemd's upstream is explicitly interested in

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-01 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 1 Sep 2014 13:26:09 -0400 Dan Ritter d...@randomstring.org wrote: Reading: http://0pointer.net/blog/revisiting-how-we-put-together-linux-systems.html systemd's upstream is explicitly interested in taking over all Linux distros, not in the minor sense of being supported on every

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-01 Thread green
Dan Ritter wrote at 2014-09-01 12:26 -0500: Reading: http://0pointer.net/blog/revisiting-how-we-put-together-linux-systems.html Dan, thank you for posting this link. It is especially interesting considering it is by Lennart Poettering. Also, I consider it relevant to Debian users and firmly

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-01 Thread Haines Brown
I hestitate to enter this thread, given its nasty tone, so please don't attack me if I pose some non-partisan questions. An issue came up whether debian Jessie can run without systemd. I'm currently running Wheezy without systemd installed, but I get this: $ dpkg -l *systemd* | grep ii ii

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-01 Thread Brian
On Mon 01 Sep 2014 at 18:17:29 -0400, Haines Brown wrote: I hestitate to enter this thread, given its nasty tone, so please don't attack me if I pose some non-partisan questions. This is not an attack. :) Non-partisan questions are much better off being asked in a standalone post separate

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-01 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2014 01 Sep 12:43 -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: Reading: http://0pointer.net/blog/revisiting-how-we-put-together-linux-systems.html I stopped at his second bullet point. He wants to lump RPM and .deb systems together and it's clear he hasn't got a clue. I'm also an upstream project manager

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-01 Thread Zenaan Harkness
http://0pointer.net/blog/revisiting-how-we-put-together-linux-systems.html That looks -awesome-! Great potential. Object-oriented distributions/ installations. It'll be quite a journey from here to there though :) So many comedic opportunities shall undoubtedly present themselves. -- To

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-01 Thread John Hasler
Steve Litt writes: Let's rename the Linux Kernel to the Systemd Kernel. Then let's make the package manager part of the kernel. No, no. Make the kernel part of Systemd. And X as well. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-01 Thread Bzzzz
On Mon, 01 Sep 2014 21:50:04 -0500 John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com wrote: No, no. Make the kernel part of Systemd. And X as well. In this case, why not making only one package of the whole distro: systemd-all-in-one.deb-rpm-gz ;) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-01 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Dan Ritter wrote: Reading: http://0pointer.net/blog/revisiting-how-we-put-together-linux-systems.html systemd's upstream is explicitly interested in taking over all Linux distros, not in the minor sense of being supported on every system but in the major sense of making package management