Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-21 Thread Joel Roth
Brian Nash wrote: > Regardless of whether John is a troll, this list seems to be tearing > itself apart at the slightest provocation. > Perhaps people here are more stressed than they let on. > Perhaps _certain people_ should cut them some slack. I read that you are appealing for moderation, whi

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-21 Thread Brian Nash
Regardless of whether John is a troll, this list seems to be tearing itself apart at the slightest provocation. Perhaps people here are more stressed than they let on. Perhaps _certain people_ should cut them some slack. On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 08:16:09PM +, Rowland Penny wrote: On 21/12/15

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-21 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Mitt Green writes: > You miss my point. I am trying to deliver > the message that it is in my opinion > unacceptable for people to use oath and insults in > public. Doesn't matter in a pub, in a shop, > in a mailing list, in a class, in a street, whatever. > It can be acceptable in gangsta rap, i

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-21 Thread Mitt Green
>‎Our project is developing an alternative, not providing space for debate That's why I'd like to end this discussion. >Please let us know if you ever find out spaces where unbiased debate on >systemd can take place, some people here and among them myself may be >able to contribute then. Sure. B

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-21 Thread Rowland Penny
On 21/12/15 20:01, Mitt Green wrote: Rowland Penny wrote: I am beginning to think this may be aimed squarely at me, if so, then come out and say so. I think Mitt may have taken exception to the word 'moron' [...] It was addressed to everyone here. You have taken a few chances here trying to

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-21 Thread Jaromil
dear Mitt, On Mon, 21 Dec 2015, Mitt Green wrote: > Rowland Penny wrote: > > >I am beginning to think this may be aimed squarely at me, if so, then > >come out and say so. I think Mitt may have taken exception to the > >word 'moron' [...] > > It was addressed to everyone here. You have taken

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-21 Thread Mitt Green
Rowland Penny wrote: >I am beginning to think this may be aimed squarely at me, if so, then >come out and say so. I think Mitt may have taken exception to the word 'moron' >[...] It was addressed to everyone here. You have taken a few chances here trying to insult John Hughes, John being accus

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-21 Thread Rowland Penny
On 21/12/15 14:30, Mitt Green wrote: I've been talking a lot about courtesy in the community. It is certainly the biggest thing Debian lacks (and some mates from outside lack it as well, check my post here: http://www.linux.org/threads/random-thoughts-on-linux-and-open-source-movement.7452/) I m

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-21 Thread Teodoro Santoni
Good evening, 2015-12-21 18:49 GMT+01:00, Mitt Green : > Linus, Lennart, Theo de Raadt, they are all > criticised for using inappropriate language. > Debian is also blamed for lacking a little discipline > in the public mailing lists. Probably is the common, clickbait-polluted, sense. *I* blame t

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-21 Thread Mitt Green
‎Ra‎iner , You miss my point. I am trying to deliver the message that it is in my opinion unacceptable for people to use oath and insults in public. Doesn't matter in a pub, in a shop, in a mailing list, in a class, in a street, whatever. It can be acceptable in gangsta rap, in rednecks societies

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-21 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Mitt Green writes: >>As additional clarification: I didn't mean to suggest that Mitt Green > >>was seriously contemplating to get his battle axe ready to chop somone's >>foul head off because of "use of four letter words in public", just >>highlight that one should be very careful wrt reading '[ir

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-21 Thread Mitt Green
>As additional clarification: I didn't mean to suggest that Mitt Green >was seriously contemplating to get his battle axe ready to chop somone's >foul head off because of "use of four letter words in public", just >highlight that one should be very careful wrt reading '[irrational] >aggression' i

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-21 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Rainer Weikusat writes: > Mitt Green writes: >> I've been talking a lot about courtesy in the community. >> It is certainly the biggest thing Debian lacks (and >> some mates from outside lack it as well, check my post here: >> http://www.linux.org/threads/random-thoughts-on-linux-and-open-source-

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-21 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Mitt Green writes: > I've been talking a lot about courtesy in the community. > It is certainly the biggest thing Debian lacks (and > some mates from outside lack it as well, check my post here: > http://www.linux.org/threads/random-thoughts-on-linux-and-open-source-movement.7452/) > > I must admi

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-21 Thread Mitt Green
I've been talking a lot about courtesy in the community. It is certainly the biggest thing Debian lacks (and some mates from outside lack it as well, check my post here: http://www.linux.org/threads/random-thoughts-on-linux-and-open-source-movement.7452/) I must admit that I *hate* when people use

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-21 Thread John Hughes
On 20/12/15 13:20, Adam Borowski wrote: On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 12:21:11PM +0100, John Hughes wrote: On 20/12/15 11:18, Adam Borowski wrote: Package: libpam-systemd [...] Depends: libc6 (>= 2.17), libpam0g (>= 0.99.7.1), libselinux1 (>= 1.32), systemd (= 228-2), libpam-runtime (>= 1.0.1-6), d

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-20 Thread Dragan FOSS
On 12/20/2015 08:56 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: systemd-shim does not depend on systemd, and it conflicts with systemd. You cannot install both, as claimed by John Hughes. apt-cache rdepends systemd-shim systemd-shim Reverse Depends: systemd-shim:i386 systemd:i386 |xfce4-session systemd |l

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-20 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 02:56:48PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > Please reread what I pasted again. There's a hard dependency on systemd. > > And libpam-systemd is the only real user of systemd-shim. > > To achieve some clarity I performed a few experiments using > user-mode aptitude on my alph

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-20 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 01:20:58PM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 12:21:11PM +0100, John Hughes wrote: > > On 20/12/15 11:18, Adam Borowski wrote: > > >On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 10:12:05AM +0100, John Hughes wrote: > > >> > > >>Huh? systemd-shim is a tool for using libbpam-sys

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-20 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 12:21:11PM +0100, John Hughes wrote: > On 20/12/15 11:18, Adam Borowski wrote: > >On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 10:12:05AM +0100, John Hughes wrote: > >> > >>Huh? systemd-shim is a tool for using libbpam-systemd (which Gnome depends > >>on) without systemd being *installed* > >>

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-20 Thread John Hughes
On 20/12/15 11:18, Adam Borowski wrote: On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 10:12:05AM +0100, John Hughes wrote: Huh? systemd-shim is a tool for using libbpam-systemd (which Gnome depends on) without systemd being *installed* In fact it *breaks* systemd, you can't have them both installed. Package: libp

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-20 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 10:12:05AM +0100, John Hughes wrote: > On 19/12/15 17:28, Adam Borowski wrote: > > > >Systemd-shim is a tool for running _systemd_ without it being pid 1. > >It's useless without systemd. > > > > Huh? systemd-shim is a tool for using libbpam-systemd (which Gnome depends >

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-20 Thread John Hughes
On 19/12/15 17:28, Adam Borowski wrote: Systemd-shim is a tool for running _systemd_ without it being pid 1. It's useless without systemd. Huh? systemd-shim is a tool for using libbpam-systemd (which Gnome depends on) without systemd being *installed* In fact it *breaks* systemd, you can'

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community (John Hughes)

2015-12-19 Thread janpenguin
Looking back the past, the precursor of systemd chaos was replacement of ALSA with pulseaudio that caused headache to many innocent users from Debian 6.0 to 7.0. I tried to use buggy pulseaudio for months but went back to ALSA. Systemd built-in Debian Jessie was a disaster. How many users are

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-19 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 19 Dec 2015 11:02:49 + Rowland Penny wrote: > Will somebody please do what debian does when somebody says systemd > is bad on their mailing list -- Ban him! > > Rowland Calling Don Armstrong. Calling Don Armstrong. Don, we need you! :-) SteveT Steve Litt November 2015 featured

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-19 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 12:46:21PM +0100, John Hughes wrote: > On 19/12/15 12:02, Rowland Penny wrote: > >Look, you troll, If you 'apt-get remove systemd' on debian, it will > >remove Gnome or Mate, I know I tried. Anything that does this, is > >*BAD* in my books. > > You're doing it wrong. > > h

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-19 Thread Go Linux
On Sat, 12/19/15, John Hughes wrote: Subject: Re: [DNG] Our friendly community To: dng@lists.dyne.org Date: Saturday, December 19, 2015, 6:05 AM On 19/12/15 12:54, Rowland Penny wrote: > Firstly, *never* email me directly. Sorry, pressed wrong button in crappy thunderbird interf

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-19 Thread Dragan FOSS
On 12/19/2015 02:45 PM, John Hughes wrote: And all the little no-systemd irritations are fixed? hibernation/suspend and so on? I don't know...you can try for yourself.. :) BTW, I think that list of "little no-systemd irritations.." is much shorter than list of systemd irritations ;) Why is

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-19 Thread John Hughes
On 19/12/15 14:34, Dragan FOSS wrote: On 12/19/2015 01:05 PM, John Hughes wrote: people who don't want to use systemd are forced into running broken systems, so I would like to see useful work towards making it possible to easily run alternatives to systemd. You're obviously ignorant :) Appa

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-19 Thread Dragan FOSS
On 12/19/2015 01:05 PM, John Hughes wrote: people who don't want to use systemd are forced into running broken systems, so I would like to see useful work towards making it possible to easily run alternatives to systemd. You're obviously ignorant :) Rock-solid Debian-jessie-based system withou

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-19 Thread Rainer Weikusat
John Hughes writes: > On 18/12/15 15:50, Mitt Green wrote: >>> It's a library whose sole purpose is to make sure that >>> packages *don't* depend on >>> systemd. >> So, you are saying that libsystemd0 is harmless and it >> doesn't mean anything unless you install systemd, systemd-sysv and so on? >

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-19 Thread John Hughes
On 19/12/15 12:47, KatolaZ wrote: On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 11:02:49AM +, Rowland Penny wrote: [cut] Look, you troll, If you 'apt-get remove systemd' on debian, it will remove Gnome or Mate, I know I tried. Anything that does this, is *BAD* in my books. It also removes cups and many other

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-19 Thread John Hughes
On 19/12/15 12:54, Rowland Penny wrote: On 19/12/15 11:45, John Hughes wrote: On 19/12/15 12:02, Rowland Penny wrote: Look, you troll, If you 'apt-get remove systemd' on debian, it will remove Gnome or Mate, I know I tried. Anything that does this, is *BAD* in my books. You're doing it wro

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-19 Thread Mitt Green
Red Hat is Novell in 2010s. Compare: both had deals with Microsoft, both try to take control over Linux, controversial decisions of both were and still are highly criticised in the community, both are companies developing enterprise solutions. Let's see what Red Hat controls: rpm, GNOME, NetworkMa

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-19 Thread Rowland Penny
On 19/12/15 11:45, John Hughes wrote: On 19/12/15 12:02, Rowland Penny wrote: Look, you troll, If you 'apt-get remove systemd' on debian, it will remove Gnome or Mate, I know I tried. Anything that does this, is *BAD* in my books. You're doing it wrong. http://without-systemd.org/wiki/inde

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-19 Thread KatolaZ
On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 11:02:49AM +, Rowland Penny wrote: [cut] > > Look, you troll, If you 'apt-get remove systemd' on debian, it will > remove Gnome or Mate, I know I tried. Anything that does this, is > *BAD* in my books. > It also removes cups and many other things, for that matter. W

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-19 Thread John Hughes
On 19/12/15 12:02, Rowland Penny wrote: Look, you troll, If you 'apt-get remove systemd' on debian, it will remove Gnome or Mate, I know I tried. Anything that does this, is *BAD* in my books. You're doing it wrong. http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/How_to_remove_systemd_from_a_Debian

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-19 Thread Rowland Penny
On 19/12/15 10:53, John Hughes wrote: On 19/12/15 11:28, Rowland Penny wrote: On 19/12/15 10:21, John Hughes wrote: On 18/12/15 19:40, Steve Litt wrote: most of [ JH's posts ] tended to say "libsystemd0 isn't that bad", I don't think it's that bad, and, despite my asking nobody can tell m

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-19 Thread John Hughes
On 19/12/15 11:28, Rowland Penny wrote: On 19/12/15 10:21, John Hughes wrote: On 18/12/15 19:40, Steve Litt wrote: most of [ JH's posts ] tended to say "libsystemd0 isn't that bad", I don't think it's that bad, and, despite my asking nobody can tell me why it is. I will give you a good r

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-19 Thread Rowland Penny
On 19/12/15 10:21, John Hughes wrote: On 18/12/15 19:40, Steve Litt wrote: On Fri, 18 Dec 2015 17:39:26 +0100 John Hughes wrote: On 18/12/15 17:18, Mitt Green wrote: No, the actual work on packages that remove libsystemd0 dependency. I've done quite of it for my machine. Notable examples inc

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-19 Thread John Hughes
On 18/12/15 15:50, Mitt Green wrote: It's a library whose sole purpose is to make sure that packages *don't* depend on systemd. So, you are saying that libsystemd0 is harmless and it doesn't mean anything unless you install systemd, systemd-sysv and so on? Exactly.

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-19 Thread John Hughes
On 18/12/15 19:40, Steve Litt wrote: On Fri, 18 Dec 2015 17:39:26 +0100 John Hughes wrote: On 18/12/15 17:18, Mitt Green wrote: No, the actual work on packages that remove libsystemd0 dependency. I've done quite of it for my machine. Notable examples include angband repositories apart from De

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-19 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 18/12/2015 17:39, John Hughes a écrit : But why? What badness does libsystemd0 do? It's poluting the depending packages, the repository, and apt cache. And it can only be built from upstream systemd source, which means it's imposed on you in some way, even if you don't want it.

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-18 Thread Go Linux
On Fri, 12/18/15, Arthur Marsh wrote: Subject: Re: [DNG] Our friendly community To: dng@lists.dyne.org Date: Friday, December 18, 2015, 9:08 PM Steve Litt wrote on 19/12/15 04:17: > On Fri, 18 Dec 2015 11:22:33 +0100 > Didier Kryn wrote: > >>> "I strongly recomm

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-18 Thread Arthur Marsh
Steve Litt wrote on 19/12/15 04:17: On Fri, 18 Dec 2015 11:22:33 +0100 Didier Kryn wrote: "I strongly recommend that the people who cannot live with libsystemd0 installed on their systems leave Debian, because their life is going to suck more and more as we will integrate it in every important

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-18 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Steve Litt writes: > On Fri, 18 Dec 2015 17:39:26 +0100 > John Hughes wrote: > >> On 18/12/15 17:18, Mitt Green wrote: >> > >> > No, the actual work on packages that remove libsystemd0 dependency. >> > I've done quite of it for my machine. Notable examples include >> > angband repositories apart

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-18 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 18 Dec 2015 17:39:26 +0100 John Hughes wrote: > On 18/12/15 17:18, Mitt Green wrote: > > > > No, the actual work on packages that remove libsystemd0 dependency. > > I've done quite of it for my machine. Notable examples include > > angband repositories apart from Devuan's own. Adam made a

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-18 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Rainer Weikusat writes: > Tomasz Torcz writes: >> On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 04:27:32PM +, Rainer Weikusat wrote: >>> >> you'll note that the >>> >> >>> >> if (init_is_systemd)F { >>> >> do some systemd stuff; >>> >> } else { >>> >> /* syslog(LOG_EMERG, "ESYADMINDEPRECATED!!!"); */ >>> >> } >>

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-18 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 18 Dec 2015 17:06:43 +0100 John Hughes wrote: > > I previously thought that Devuan aim was to remove > > *any* of systemd components. > > Funny, I thought Devuan was about choice. Yes and no. This was discussed several months ago. A huge priority of Devuan is to allow choice. Howev

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-18 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Tomasz Torcz writes: > On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 04:27:32PM +, Rainer Weikusat wrote: >> >> you'll note that the >> >> >> >> if (init_is_systemd)F { >> >> do some systemd stuff; >> >> } else { >> >> /* syslog(LOG_EMERG, "ESYADMINDEPRECATED!!!"); */ >> >> } >> >> >> >> is nothing but "system

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-18 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 04:27:32PM +, Rainer Weikusat wrote: > >> you'll note that the > >> > >> if (init_is_systemd)F { > >>do some systemd stuff; > >> } else { > >>/* syslog(LOG_EMERG, "ESYADMINDEPRECATED!!!"); */ > >> } > >> > >> is nothing but "systemd support code added to some pac

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-18 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 18 Dec 2015 15:37:56 +0300 Mitt Green wrote: > KatolaZ wrote: > > >Sure, but you would agree that rebuilding an increasing number of > >infected packages in Devuan from upstream would mean a great deal of > >unnecessary work... > > > It may be unnecessary, that's why I see a couple

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-18 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 18 Dec 2015 11:22:33 +0100 Didier Kryn wrote: > > "I strongly recommend that the people who cannot live with > > libsystemd0 installed on their systems leave Debian, because their > > life is going to suck more and more as we will integrate it in > > every important daemon after jessie wi

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-18 Thread Go Linux
On Fri, 12/18/15, John Hughes wrote: Subject: Re: [DNG] Our friendly community To: dng@lists.dyne.org Date: Friday, December 18, 2015, 11:27 AM On 18/12/15 18:06, Hendrik Boom wrote: > Indeed, both are true. Devuan is about choice. Since Debian is quite > clearly providing the alter

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-18 Thread John Hughes
On 18/12/15 18:06, Hendrik Boom wrote: Indeed, both are true. Devuan is about choice. Since Debian is quite clearly providing the alternative of using systemd, And the alternative of *not* using systemd. the main effort here is to provide the alternative of not using systemd. The main part

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-18 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 05:06:43PM +0100, John Hughes wrote: > On 18/12/15 16:51, Mitt Green wrote: > > > I previously thought that Devuan aim was to remove > >*any* of systemd components. > > Funny, I thought Devuan was about choice. Indeed, both are true. Devuan is about choice. Since Debian

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-18 Thread Rainer Weikusat
John Hughes writes: > On 18/12/15 17:27, Rainer Weikusat wrote: >> John Hughes writes: >> >>> >>> Can't find the string "ESYADMINDEPRECATED" in the source for >>> libsystemd0. >> That's not really surprising as there is no source for >> 'libsystemd0'. It's a part of systemd, >> >> https://package

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-18 Thread Mitt Green
John Hughes wrote: >But why? What badness does libsystemd0 do? A simple principle: let the end user decide what he is going to run. Why maintainers push libsystemd0 dependency when they can forget it. Compare: Xfce devs (package maintainers) never required systemd to run, Mate maintainers req

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-18 Thread John Hughes
On 18/12/15 17:54, John Hughes wrote: You were implicitly claiming that libsystemd would produce errors if systemd was installed. I was, perhaps flippantly, noting that it doesn't. Duh, systemd *wasn't* installed, I meant. ___ Dng mailing list Dng

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-18 Thread John Hughes
On 18/12/15 17:27, Rainer Weikusat wrote: John Hughes writes: Can't find the string "ESYADMINDEPRECATED" in the source for libsystemd0. That's not really surprising as there is no source for 'libsystemd0'. It's a part of systemd, https://packages.debian.org/sid/libsystemd0 and the source o

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-18 Thread John Hughes
On 18/12/15 17:18, Mitt Green wrote: No, the actual work on packages that remove libsystemd0 dependency. I've done quite of it for my machine. Notable examples include angband repositories apart from Devuan's own. Adam made a big base removing the dependency. But why? What badness does libsys

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-18 Thread Rainer Weikusat
John Hughes writes: > On 18/12/15 16:25, Rainer Weikusat wrote: >> If you look at >> >> , >> | if (init_is_systemd) { >> |do some systemd stuff; >> | } >> | else { >> |carry on as before; >> | } >> ` >> >> you'll note that the >> >> if (init_is_systemd)F { >> do some syst

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-18 Thread Mitt Green
John Hughes wrote: >The only "hype" about libsystemd0 was >from LKCL who came up with a strange plan to remove it by replacing >libsystemd0 by a library that would dynamically load libsystemd0, >probably called lib-not-quite-libsystemd0. No, the actual work on packages that remove libsystem

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-18 Thread John Hughes
On 18/12/15 16:51, Mitt Green wrote: is nothing but "systemd support code added to some package". If it is so, why there is so much hype about it? Hype about what? libsystemd0? The only "hype" about libsystemd0 was from LKCL who came up with a strange plan to remove it by replacing libsyst

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-18 Thread Mitt Green
>is nothing but "systemd support code added to some >package". If it is so, why there is so much hype about it?  I previously thought that Devuan aim was to remove *any* of systemd components. Does that mean that we *should*‎ care of this dependency? As far as I see libsystemd0 is only a shared l

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-18 Thread John Hughes
On 18/12/15 16:25, Rainer Weikusat wrote: If you look at , | if (init_is_systemd) { |do some systemd stuff; | } | else { |carry on as before; | } ` you'll note that the if (init_is_systemd) { do some systemd stuff; } else { /* syslog(LOG_EMERG, "ESYADMINDEPR

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-18 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
John Hughes writes: In fact he seems to have resigned because he was pissed off with Ian Jackson's anti-systemd (pro-upstart) agitation. Rumour had it that he was offgepissed about the manner of discourse, both in Debian generally at the time and in particular in the systemd discussion. Arn

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-18 Thread aitor_czr
Hi John, On 18/12/15 16:18, John Hughes wrote: (I hate Thunderbird -- resending 'cos idiot program chose wrong sender address*again*) I use ManJaro Mail :) Aitor. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mail

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-18 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Mitt Green writes: >>It's a library whose sole purpose is to make sure that >>packages *don't* depend on >>systemd. > > So, you are saying that libsystemd0 is harmless and it > doesn't mean anything unless you install systemd, systemd-sysv and so > on? If you look at , | if (init_is_systemd

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-18 Thread Rainer Weikusat
John Hughes writes: > Rainer Weikusat writes: >> A somewhat loaded "executive summary" of [Russ Allbery's] statement >> could be: "Considering that systemd was forced into Debian, I >> really don't see why I would want to bother was all this boring tech >> stuff any longer". > > An improbable rea

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-18 Thread John Hughes
On 18/12/15 15:54, Didier Kryn wrote: Le 18/12/2015 15:35, John Hughes a écrit : The list is, of course, spurious. $ cat /etc/debian_version 8.2 $ apt-cache rdepends libsystemd0 | wc -l 74 Sorry, my primary attitude is to believe what people write. So it's only 74. Does it include chained

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-18 Thread John Hughes
On 18/12/15 15:50, Mitt Green wrote: It's a library whose sole purpose is to make sure that packages *don't* depend on systemd. So, you are saying that libsystemd0 is harmless and it doesn't mean anything unless you install systemd, systemd-sysv and so on? Exactly. (aargh. resending 'cos got

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-18 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 18/12/2015 15:35, John Hughes a écrit : The list is, of course, spurious. $ cat /etc/debian_version 8.2 $ apt-cache rdepends libsystemd0 | wc -l 74 Sorry, my primary attitude is to believe what people write. So it's only 74. Does it include chained dependency? Every single function

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-18 Thread Mitt Green
>It's a library whose sole purpose is to make sure that >packages *don't* depend on >systemd. So, you are saying that libsystemd0 is harmless and it doesn't mean anything unless you install systemd, systemd-sysv and so on? Mitt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-18 Thread John Hughes
Didier Kryn writes: The list of 4583 packages now depending on libsysemd0 includes a lot of packages which definitely have nothing to do with it. The final lock will happen when the dependency will reach the shells and gcc. Given the fast contamination, we should expect this pretty soon. T

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-18 Thread John Hughes
Rainer Weikusat writes: A somewhat loaded "executive summary" of [Russ Allbery's] statement > could be: > "Considering that systemd was forced into Debian, I really don't see why I would want to bother was all this boring tech stuff any longer". An improbable reading given that Russ voted fo

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-18 Thread Mitt Green
KatolaZ wrote: >Sure, but you would agree that rebuilding an increasing number of >infected packages in Devuan from upstream would mean a great deal of >unnecessary work... It may be unnecessary, that's why I see a couple of ways to solve it: 1) Contacting maintainers directly. This can be unf

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-18 Thread Rainer Weikusat
KatolaZ writes: > On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 11:22:33AM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote: > > [cut] > >> The list of 4583 packages now depending on libsysemd0 includes a >> lot of packages which definitely have nothing to do with it. The >> final lock will happen when the dependency will reach the shells

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-18 Thread KatolaZ
On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 11:09:46AM +, Mitt Green wrote: > > > KatolaZ wrote: > > > > >Just a simple question: how are the BSD folks dealing with > >those>dependencies in the ports? I beliebe there will never be a running > >libsystemd0 under FreeBSD, for instance. It might be a good idea

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-18 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 18/12/2015 11:55, Mitt Green a écrit : Didier Kryn wrote: The list of 4583 packages now depending on libsystemd0 includes a lot of packages which definitely have nothing to do with it. The final lock will happen when the dependency will reach the shells and gcc. Given the fast contamination

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-18 Thread Mitt Green
KatolaZ wrote: >Just a simple question: how are the BSD folks dealing with those>dependencies >in the ports? I beliebe there will never be a running >libsystemd0 under FreeBSD, for instance. It might be a good idea to >"re-port" the ports back into devuan, if you see what I mean... The pro

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-18 Thread Mitt Green
Didier Kryn wrote: >The list of 4583 packages now depending on libsystemd0 includes a >lot of packages which definitely have nothing to do with it. The final >lock will happen when the dependency will reach the shells and gcc. >Given the fast contamination, we should expect this pretty soon.

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-18 Thread KatolaZ
On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 11:22:33AM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote: [cut] > > The list of 4583 packages now depending on libsysemd0 includes a > lot of packages which definitely have nothing to do with it. The > final lock will happen when the dependency will reach the shells and > gcc. Given the f

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-18 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 17/12/2015 20:21, Go Linux a écrit : Marco d'Itri's response to that post is illuminating: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/02/msg00644.html "I strongly recommend that the people who cannot live with libsystemd0 installed on their systems leave Debian, because their life is going to

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-17 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 17 Dec 2015 13:41:41 -0500, Steve wrote in message <20151217134141.2284d...@mydesk.domain.cxm>: > On Thu, 17 Dec 2015 18:28:45 + (UTC) > Mitt Green wrote: > > > > A somewhat loaded "executive summary" of his statement could be: > > > "Considering that systemd was forced into Debian,

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-17 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Go Linux writes: > > On Thu, 12/17/15, Rainer Weikusat wrote: > > Subject: Re: [DNG] Our friendly community > To: "Dng" > Date: Thursday, December 17, 2015, 11:46

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-17 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2015 17 Dec 12:45 -0600, Steve Litt wrote: > I wonder if Devuan could recruit some of the massive brainpower exiting > the Debian project? Did Russ actually leave the project or just the TC. I didn't see anything recent (past couple of months) that hints at anything. I no longer follow Plan

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-17 Thread Dr. Nikolaus Klepp
> Marco d'Itri's response to that post is illuminating: > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/02/msg00644.html > > "I strongly recommend that the people who cannot live with libsystemd0 > installed on their systems leave Debian, because their life is going to > suck more and more as we

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-17 Thread Go Linux
On Thu, 12/17/15, Rainer Weikusat wrote: Subject: Re: [DNG] Our friendly community To: "Dng" Date: Thursday, December 17, 2015, 11:46 AM Mitt Green writes: [...] Marco d'Itr

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-17 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 17 Dec 2015 18:28:45 + (UTC) Mitt Green wrote: > > A somewhat loaded "executive summary" of his statement could be: > > "Considering that systemd was forced into Debian, I really don't > > see why I would want to bother was all this boring tech stuff any > > longer". > > > From wh

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-17 Thread Mitt Green
> A somewhat loaded "executive summary" of his statement could be: > "Considering that systemd was forced into Debian, I really don't see why > I would want to bother was all this boring tech stuff any longer". From what I've read, the bunch of people resigned (including Ian Jackson) and all of

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-17 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Mitt Green writes: [...] > I heard Russ Allbery is one of those mates who resigned recently. > Reasons are unclear to me. A somewhat loaded "executive summary" of his statement could be: "Considering that systemd was forced into Debian, I really don't see why I would want to bother was all thi

[DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-17 Thread Mitt Green
Hi, Not sure how many of you have read this (https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/02/msg00641.html) I can't really understand the reaction. Saying people to leave Debian; or how is libselinux related to NSA these days, as far as I understand SELnux is a kernel module (which I don't have on