Re: Wouter and Gergely: software monopoly vs diversity

2012-03-31 Thread Gergely Nagy
"Eugene V. Lyubimkin" writes: > What is your vision about how many different software pieces can be > supported by Debian as a project for each part of the software stack, > would it be architectures, kernels, init systems, high-level package > managers, desktop environments or something else? I

Re: Wouter and Gergely: software monopoly vs diversity

2012-03-18 Thread Wouter Verhelst
(this is getting increasingly off-topic for -vote, so this'll be my last post on the subject on this mailinglist) On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 07:36:22PM +0100, Luk Claes wrote: > AFAICS one is requesting to change the default to a dependency based > boot system as the early boot gets less and less rel

Re: Wouter and Gergely: software monopoly vs diversity

2012-03-17 Thread Luk Claes
On 03/17/2012 06:46 PM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 09:01:55AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >> >>> In some cases, of course, that isn't the case, and then things get >>> somewhat more complex. A good example on that is the s

Re: Wouter and Gergely: software monopoly vs diversity

2012-03-17 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 09:01:55AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > In some cases, of course, that isn't the case, and then things get > > somewhat more complex. A good example on that is the systemd discussion > > on -devel currently: making

Re: Wouter and Gergely: software monopoly vs diversity

2012-03-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > In some cases, of course, that isn't the case, and then things get > somewhat more complex. A good example on that is the systemd discussion > on -devel currently: making systemd the default and required init > implementation would, in the

Re: Wouter and Gergely: software monopoly vs diversity

2012-03-16 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi Eugene, On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 10:50:28AM +0200, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > Hello, > > What is your vision about how many different software pieces can be > supported by Debian as a project for each part of the software stack, > would it be architectures, kernels, init systems, high-level p

Wouter and Gergely: software monopoly vs diversity

2012-03-16 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Hello, What is your vision about how many different software pieces can be supported by Debian as a project for each part of the software stack, would it be architectures, kernels, init systems, high-level package managers, desktop environments or something else? In other words, would you want Deb