Improving recovery (Re: support for merged /usr in Debian)

2016-01-06 Thread Ole Laursen
Simon McVittie debian.org> writes: > I personally think those factors undermine the "/ as recovery" use-case > so far that the advantages of a merged /usr far outweigh it. User side note: If people would like to help the recovery use case, grml-rescueboot is already packaged which adds grub

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Ole Laursen
Steve McIntyre steve at einval.com writes: Pros: * CD#1 will work again without size worries * Smaller, simpler desktop * Works well/better on all supported kernels (?) * Does not depend on replacing init Cons: * please fill in here IMHO you forgot the crucial part here - why

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Ole Laursen
Thorsten Glaser tg at mirbsd.de writes: • Your primary use case appears to be “the desktop”, whereas Debian, as opposed to some of its downstreams and Pure Blends, is a Universal OS, which means it’s got much more servers in use, which don’t benefit from systemd either at all or at least

Re: using upstart in Debian [was, Re: Debian systemd survey]

2013-05-24 Thread Ole Laursen
Steve Langasek vorlon at debian.org writes: Sorry you ran into trouble with upstart. Not a DD, just a happy Debian user, hope you'll excuse me, but on the topic of Upstart, I have some technical comments on why, surprisingly, I think it may not be mature enough yet. A couple of years ago I was

Re: using upstart in Debian [was, Re: Debian systemd survey]

2013-05-24 Thread Ole Laursen
Dmitrijs Ledkovs xnox at debian.org writes: Also on technical merits although more philosophically, with Upstart you're expressing yourself in an event-based DSL rather than writing configuration files. It's pretty generic. But unfortunately, that means it's also not entirely straightforward,