Re: [DNG] systemd in the era of hotplugable devices

2015-07-23 Thread Peter Maloney
On 07/22/2015 10:41 PM, Laurent Bercot wrote: OT: I would like it if the list host could set the Mailing-List: header on list messages. Most MUAs understand it and implement a reply to list feature; without it, we're stuck with manual configuration or hitting reply to all, which causes

Re: [DNG] Will there be a MirDevuan WTF?

2015-07-23 Thread Teodoro Santoni
Good evening, On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 01:44:32PM -0700, James Powell wrote: So exactly what do we use in place of D-Bus as a replacement Userspace IPC handler and protocol that is Generic to POSIX systems and UNIX? If we rip out D-Bus what do we use in it's place that is drop in compatible?

Re: [DNG] Will there be a MirDevuan WTF?

2015-07-23 Thread James Powell
So exactly what do we use in place of D-Bus as a replacement Userspace IPC handler and protocol that is Generic to POSIX systems and UNIX? If we rip out D-Bus what do we use in it's place that is drop in compatible? You're talking about tearing apart a LOT of packages just to satisfy a

Re: [DNG] Will there be a MirDevuan WTF?

2015-07-23 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 23/07/2015 22:44, James Powell a écrit : So exactly what do we use in place of D-Bus as a replacement Userspace IPC handler and protocol that is Generic to POSIX systems and UNIX? If we rip out D-Bus what do we use in it's place that is drop in compatible? You're talking about tearing

Re: [DNG] sans-dbus: was Will there be a MirDevuan WTF?

2015-07-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 23 Jul 2015 07:24:10 -1000 Joel Roth jo...@pobox.com wrote: Steve Litt wrote: On Thu, 23 Jul 2015 08:39:05 +0200 Michael Bütow mbu...@houtbay.com wrote: I am sure if someone wants to expend the energy to get rid of D-Bus related software in Devuan, they can set up their own

Re: [DNG] Will there be a MirDevuan WTF?

2015-07-23 Thread Jaromil
On Thu, 23 Jul 2015, Hendrik Boom wrote: I do not understand this entire thread. I have not a clue what a MirDevuan WTF would be. What does the Mir prefi contribute the the eaning? What does WTF mean in thei context. I mean what the fuck? yep. this is sort of going bonkers. me and other

Re: [DNG] sans-dbus: was Will there be a MirDevuan WTF?

2015-07-23 Thread Isaac Dunham
On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 12:12:36PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: On Thu, 23 Jul 2015 08:39:05 +0200 Michael Bütow mbu...@houtbay.com wrote: I am sure if someone wants to expend the energy to get rid of D-Bus related software in Devuan, they can set up their own spin of it. For those of you

[DNG] The figure of commits behind the upstream on github

2015-07-23 Thread Anto
Hello everybody, I forked a project on github and added some commits on top of the ones on upstream repository. The figure of commits behind on github web interface is quite important for me as that indicates whether there are new commits on upstream that I need to merge or not. There are

Re: [DNG] systemd in the era of hotplugable devices

2015-07-23 Thread Laurent Bercot
On 23/07/2015 22:41, Peter Maloney wrote: What's wrong with these, which Thunderbird handles just fine? Ah, indeed it does, when the list address is in the To: It does not when the list address is in the Cc: So the solution is to make sure to always send To: the list. :) Thanks for the

Re: [DNG] Will there be a MirDevuan WTF?

2015-07-23 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 01:53:15AM +0200, Jaromil wrote: On Thu, 23 Jul 2015, Hendrik Boom wrote: I do not understand this entire thread. I have not a clue what a MirDevuan WTF would be. What does the Mir prefi contribute the the meaning? What does WTF mean in thei context. I mean

Re: [DNG] sans-dbus: was Will there be a MirDevuan WTF?

2015-07-23 Thread Isaac Dunham
On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 11:49:11PM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote: Le 23/07/2015 22:19, Isaac Dunham a écrit : On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 12:12:36PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: For those of you who don't want dbus, my experience tells me that getting rid of it would involve something like the

Re: [DNG] Will there be a MirDevuan WTF?

2015-07-23 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 12:12:01AM +0200, Teodoro Santoni wrote: ... but, yeah, it's outside the scope of Devuan. D-Bus just sucks and is documented on a random basis, when you compare it to the rest of GNU/Fedora it's... like GTK: it sucks, there are alternatives but it's a PITA to port

Re: [DNG] Will there be a MirDevuan WTF?

2015-07-23 Thread KatolaZ
On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 01:58:28PM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote: Le 23/07/2015 10:36, T.J. Duchene a écrit : Like you I would like to get rid of Dbus. This was invented to replace the own equivalents of Gnome and KDE, and I need neither Gnome nor KDE. But Dbus seems to have infected every

Re: [DNG] Multi-seat on Devuan, do we actually need that useless curiosity?

2015-07-23 Thread Vlad
Yeah, but that is why we have VNC for. As I said, multiseat is pretty much useless. Hell, the proprietary software can be installed on a server and run from anywhere. On Jul 23, 2015 6:32 AM, Isaac Dunham ibid...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 03:49:32AM +0300, Vlad wrote: I think

Re: [DNG] The figure of commits behind the upstream on github

2015-07-23 Thread Jude Nelson
Hi Anto, [snip] does anybody have any suggestion how to easily find out that our fork repositories need updating without keep checking the upstream repositories? You're going to have to pull changes upstream periodically. That's just the way git is designed--if you're not hosting the

Re: [DNG] Will there be a MirDevuan WTF?

2015-07-23 Thread Isaac Dunham
On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 01:53:15AM +0200, Jaromil wrote: On Thu, 23 Jul 2015, Hendrik Boom wrote: I do not understand this entire thread. I have not a clue what a MirDevuan WTF would be. What does the Mir prefi contribute the the eaning? What does WTF mean in thei context. I mean

Re: [DNG] GTK (was Will there be a MirDevuan WTF?)

2015-07-23 Thread T.J. Duchene
On 7/23/2015 10:41 PM, Isaac Dunham wrote: I'm inclined to agree with you on C++, but I'd like to refer you to Roger Leigh's comments on the subject about seven and a half months ago; I'm only appending the first couple screenfuls (which is maybe a third of the original) but you should be able

Re: [DNG] GTK (was Will there be a MirDevuan WTF?)

2015-07-23 Thread Jude Nelson
On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 10:30 PM, T.J. Duchene t.j.duch...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, July 23, 2015 08:22:55 PM Hendrik Boom wrote: On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 12:12:01AM +0200, Teodoro Santoni wrote: ... but, yeah, it's outside the scope of Devuan. D-Bus just sucks and is documented on

Re: [DNG] GTK (was Will there be a MirDevuan WTF?)

2015-07-23 Thread T.J. Duchene
On 7/23/2015 9:52 PM, Jude Nelson wrote: I don't care for it myself - because it is C++. Minor correction: GTK is written in C, and relies on GLib, which is also written C. However, it's open to debate as to how similar/different C-plus-GLib is to C++ in practice. Apologies

Re: [DNG] GTK (was Will there be a MirDevuan WTF?)

2015-07-23 Thread T.J. Duchene
On Thursday, July 23, 2015 08:22:55 PM Hendrik Boom wrote: On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 12:12:01AM +0200, Teodoro Santoni wrote: ... but, yeah, it's outside the scope of Devuan. D-Bus just sucks and is documented on a random basis, when you compare it to the rest of GNU/Fedora it's... like

Re: [DNG] GTK (was Will there be a MirDevuan WTF?)

2015-07-23 Thread Isaac Dunham
On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 09:30:04PM -0500, T.J. Duchene wrote: On Thursday, July 23, 2015 08:22:55 PM Hendrik Boom wrote: On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 12:12:01AM +0200, Teodoro Santoni wrote: ... but, yeah, it's outside the scope of Devuan. D-Bus just sucks and is documented on a random basis,

Re: [DNG] Multi-seat on Devuan, do we actually need that useless curiosity?

2015-07-23 Thread T.J. Duchene
On 7/23/2015 5:37 AM, Teodoro Santoni wrote: Good morning, On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 11:39:23PM -0500, T.J. Duchene wrote: [snip] Multi-seat logins are very useful in situations where users do not understand how to run X11 applications with different user permissions. It is an easy

Re: [DNG] Thorsten Glaser? was: Will there be a MirDevuan WTF?

2015-07-23 Thread Isaac Dunham
On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 12:23:26PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: On Thu, 23 Jul 2015 16:18:22 +0200 miro.ro...@croatiafidelis.hr wrote: What fundamentalists? The Gentoo folks? Thorsten mirabilos Glaser with his MirDebian WTF project, a fundamentalist? Me, a fundamentalist? What's the

Re: [DNG] sans-dbus: was Will there be a MirDevuan WTF?

2015-07-23 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 23/07/2015 22:19, Isaac Dunham a écrit : On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 12:12:36PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: For those of you who don't want dbus, my experience tells me that getting rid of it would involve something like the following: * Use something like fvwm, Openbox or LXDE that makes

Re: [DNG] Will there be a MirDevuan WTF?

2015-07-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 23 Jul 2015 13:44:32 -0700 James Powell james4...@hotmail.com wrote: So exactly what do we use in place of D-Bus as a replacement Userspace IPC handler and protocol that is Generic to POSIX systems and UNIX? Nothing. I've never felt the functionality to be especially valuable. I guess

Re: [DNG] Will there be a MirDevuan WTF?

2015-07-23 Thread miro . rovis
--- I sent this message four hours ago, but didn't include the list address. Sorry! --- On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 10:49:34PM -0700, James Powell wrote: ( shouldn't it be like below?, by the netiqette --see KalolaZ just arrived letter in the Multi-seat thread-- ? ) Since you would still like it

Re: [DNG] Will there be a MirDevuan WTF?

2015-07-23 Thread Hendrik Boom
I do not understand this entire thread. I have not a clue what a MirDevuan WTF would be. What does the Mir prefi contribute the the eaning? What does WTF mean in thei context. I mean what the fuck? -- hendrik ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org

[DNG] sans-dbus: was Will there be a MirDevuan WTF?

2015-07-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 23 Jul 2015 08:39:05 +0200 Michael Bütow mbu...@houtbay.com wrote: I am sure if someone wants to expend the energy to get rid of D-Bus related software in Devuan, they can set up their own spin of it. For those of you who don't want dbus, my experience tells me that getting rid of it

[DNG] Thorsten Glaser? was: Will there be a MirDevuan WTF?

2015-07-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 23 Jul 2015 16:18:22 +0200 miro.ro...@croatiafidelis.hr wrote: What fundamentalists? The Gentoo folks? Thorsten mirabilos Glaser with his MirDebian WTF project, a fundamentalist? Me, a fundamentalist? What's the relationship between Thorsten Glaser, mirabilos, and

Re: [DNG] sans-dbus: was Will there be a MirDevuan WTF?

2015-07-23 Thread Joel Roth
Steve Litt wrote: On Thu, 23 Jul 2015 08:39:05 +0200 Michael Bütow mbu...@houtbay.com wrote: I am sure if someone wants to expend the energy to get rid of D-Bus related software in Devuan, they can set up their own spin of it. For those of you who don't want dbus, my experience tells me

Re: [DNG] sans-dbus: was Will there be a MirDevuan WTF?

2015-07-23 Thread Vlad
Alsa uses dbus, since when? On Jul 23, 2015 7:12 PM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: On Thu, 23 Jul 2015 08:39:05 +0200 Michael Bütow mbu...@houtbay.com wrote: I am sure if someone wants to expend the energy to get rid of D-Bus related software in Devuan, they can set up their

Re: [DNG] systemd in the era of hotplugable devices

2015-07-23 Thread pp
On Wed, 22 Jul 2015 10:00:48 +0200, Oz Tiram oz.ti...@gmail.com wrote: Please explain it to me with out flames. [1]: http://sysadmin.tme520.net/systemd-our-songs-of-innocence/ Cannot explain but I like this article very much. Especially this : Now, for at least a couple of years, two

Re: [DNG] Multi-seat on Devuan, do we actually need that useless curiosity?

2015-07-23 Thread Fernando M. Maresca
On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 03:49:32AM +0300, Vlad wrote: I think that the pretty useless feature which helped systemd into Debian in the first place was discussed some time ago. Better footprint, less power consumption. I rutinelly do two and three seat ws without any expensive usb hub: a

Re: [DNG] Will there be a MirDevuan WTF?

2015-07-23 Thread miro . rovis
On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 11:06:29AM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: I do not understand this entire thread. I have not a clue what a MirDevuan WTF would be. What does the Mir prefix contribute the the meaning? What does WTF mean in thei context. I mean what the fuck? -- hendrik (corrected

Re: [DNG] Will there be a MirDevuan WTF?

2015-07-23 Thread Michael Bütow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 23/07/15 07:49, James Powell wrote: Devuan's main purpose is getting rid of systemd as a hard dependency and allowing user choice in init software Well said, thank you, I very much agree with your entire post and would prefer if there was

Re: [DNG] Will there be a MirDevuan WTF?

2015-07-23 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 22/07/2015 20:51, Steve Litt a écrit : On Wed, 22 Jul 2015 20:03:03 +0200 miro.ro...@croatiafidelis.hr wrote: On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 11:50:44AM -0400, Jude Nelson wrote: If I was able to understand correctly, vdev works with dbus. Vdev does not use dbus. No idea how or why you came to

Re: [DNG] Will there be a MirDevuan WTF?

2015-07-23 Thread T.J. Duchene
On 7/23/2015 12:49 AM, James Powell wrote: First off cool your jets, and trying call me out on knowing the internals of an IPC in Userspace I didn't develop is very childish. I honestly don't care if D-Bus what it does other than be a communication and messaging relay between applications

Re: [DNG] Multi-seat on Devuan, do we actually need that useless curiosity?

2015-07-23 Thread T.J. Duchene
Guys, I have serious problems understanding what is the point of this thread, really. And lenghty emails with many interleaving, fragmented discussions and cross-quoting from several different sources are far from helpful. Hi KatolaZ! I assure you it was never my intention to offend anyone,

Re: [DNG] Will there be a MirDevuan WTF?

2015-07-23 Thread Laurent Bercot
On 23/07/2015 10:36, T.J. Duchene wrote: I do not understand this animosity toward D-BUS. Could you please explain why it is such a point of contention? It is a only a protocol, with many different implementations. It is comfortably very generic and used on other UNIXs. Simple: it has a

Re: [DNG] Will there be a MirDevuan WTF?

2015-07-23 Thread T.J. Duchene
On 7/23/2015 5:16 AM, Laurent Bercot wrote: I agree that it's a fight for another time, though. TY! The information was very simple and very helpful. It's a design flaw that annoys everyone so. This is quite understandable. It has been my experience that a lot of code - FOSS or not -

Re: [DNG] Multi-seat on Devuan, do we actually need that useless curiosity?

2015-07-23 Thread KatolaZ
On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 10:54:06AM +0200, miro.ro...@croatiafidelis.hr wrote: Is it because you send from (pasting from your header): Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.1.0 or is it for some other reason (or for both or/and other reasons

Re: [DNG] Will there be a MirDevuan WTF?

2015-07-23 Thread T.J. Duchene
Like you I would like to get rid of Dbus. This was invented to replace the own equivalents of Gnome and KDE, and I need neither Gnome nor KDE. But Dbus seems to have infected every other DE. At least Xfce4. Didier I do not understand this animosity toward D-BUS. Could you

Re: [DNG] Multi-seat on Devuan, do we actually need that useless curiosity?

2015-07-23 Thread miro . rovis
Is it because you send from (pasting from your header): Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.1.0 or is it for some other reason (or for both or/and other reasons yet), who can tell? But... On 7/23/2015 12:01 AM, miro.ro...@croatiafidelis.hr

Re: [DNG] Multi-seat on Devuan, do we actually need that useless curiosity?

2015-07-23 Thread KatolaZ
On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 05:05:52AM -0500, T.J. Duchene wrote: Guys, I have serious problems understanding what is the point of this thread, really. And lenghty emails with many interleaving, fragmented discussions and cross-quoting from several different sources are far from helpful.

Re: [DNG] Multi-seat on Devuan, do we actually need that useless curiosity?

2015-07-23 Thread Teodoro Santoni
Good morning, On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 11:39:23PM -0500, T.J. Duchene wrote: [snip] Multi-seat logins are very useful in situations where users do not understand how to run X11 applications with different user permissions. It is an easy mechanism that is familiar to users from other systems