Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-08-13 Thread Emanuele Aina
The Wanderer wrote: [...] and the proprietary[0] interfaces they seem to use [...] [...] [0] Meaning approximately we create our own language and talk it to ourselves, and anyone else who wants to talk to us has to learn our language, not intending to imply undocumented or legally

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-25 Thread Miroslaw Baran
Uoti Urpala preached with fire in his heart and wind in his head: I'd say that mainly shows that systemd upstream has managed to develop things forward. Creating and changing things involves decisions, and there's no way to make everyone happy. And when old things are changed there's bound to

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-25 Thread Ondřej Surý
Miroslaw, On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Miroslaw Baran ba...@hell.pl wrote: Uoti Urpala preached with fire in his heart and wind in his head: Miroslaw, please, do not troll. This list has enough flames and we don't need more. Anecdotal evidence of some bugs in some software doesn't

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-24 Thread Uoti Urpala
brian m. carlson wrote: On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 07:17:04PM +0300, Uoti Urpala wrote: If you don't do development, and nobody sharing your views does either, then there's a limit to the extent you can choose your direction just by refusing to follow those that do develop things further. You

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-22 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] The Wanderer If someone implementing a new alternative wanted to retain the other tools with which systemd integrates, that person would have to match their interfaces, which might limit the functionality the new alternative could be able to provide - much as having to match the sysvinit

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-22 Thread Gergely Nagy
Vincent Cheng vincentc1...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 9:35 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de wrote: On 07/19/2013 06:12 PM, Mathieu Parent wrote: As the recommended way to install systemd is using init= and not installing systemd-sysv, maybe the

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-22 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 22 juillet 2013 à 10:45 +0200, Gergely Nagy a écrit : systemd being installed does not mean it will be used as init. The package happens to contain a few tools the GNOME Shell needs, that is all, to the best of my knowledge. It's a harmless dependency if you don't use systemd, one

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-22 Thread Gergely Nagy
Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org writes: Le lundi 22 juillet 2013 à 10:45 +0200, Gergely Nagy a écrit : systemd being installed does not mean it will be used as init. The package happens to contain a few tools the GNOME Shell needs, that is all, to the best of my knowledge. It's a harmless

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-22 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 22 July 2013 10:17, Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org wrote: Le lundi 22 juillet 2013 à 10:45 +0200, Gergely Nagy a écrit : systemd being installed does not mean it will be used as init. The package happens to contain a few tools the GNOME Shell needs, that is all, to the best of my

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-22 Thread The Wanderer
On 07/22/2013 02:52 AM, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: ]] The Wanderer If someone implementing a new alternative wanted to retain the other tools with which systemd integrates, that person would have to match their interfaces, which might limit the functionality the new alternative could be able to

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-22 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 21 July 2013 20:22, The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm wrote: I'm saying that it looks to me as if the lock-in to systemd would be even stronger than the lock-in to sysvinit, and might well extend to the point of even making it harder to implement another new alternative in the first place.

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-22 Thread The Wanderer
On 07/22/2013 08:48 AM, Jeremy Bicha wrote: On 21 July 2013 20:22, The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm wrote: I'm saying that it looks to me as if the lock-in to systemd would be even stronger than the lock-in to sysvinit, and might well extend to the point of even making it harder to implement

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-22 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 22.07.2013 11:17, schrieb Josselin Mouette: Le lundi 22 juillet 2013 à 10:45 +0200, Gergely Nagy a écrit : systemd being installed does not mean it will be used as init. The package happens to contain a few tools the GNOME Shell needs, that is all, to the best of my knowledge. It's a

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-22 Thread Ondřej Surý
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 2:28 PM, The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm wrote: My concern was that the integrated nature of it would make it harder to replace any one part, especially if desiring to extend rather than just reimplement. Having it made clear that it's more compatible with being

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-22 Thread Uoti Urpala
brian m. carlson wrote: On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 02:59:20AM +0300, Uoti Urpala wrote: Whether your argument was honest or not, I think it was a bad one. OK, perhaps you have concerns about the philosophy behind systemd and where that might take it in the future. Such philosophy issues are

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-22 Thread Nikolaus Rath
The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm writes: Leaving aside fears about what upstream might decide to do at some point (e.g. the make udev require systemd proposal), much of that objection simply comes down to how difficult it looks like it would be to switch *away* from systemd, once it becomes

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-22 Thread brian m. carlson
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 07:17:04PM +0300, Uoti Urpala wrote: brian m. carlson wrote: Since Debian is always in need of developers and volunteers, it isn't objectively reasonable to expect that forking a project will be possible. One thing that needs to be taken into consideration is the

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-21 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 20 juillet 2013 à 19:21 -0400, The Wanderer a écrit : [I am almost certainly going to regret this.] I hope so. Making the switch away from the entrenched sysvinit is visibly very difficult, at least as a social matter, even in the environment we have. systemd et al., by virtue of

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-21 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 11:04:08PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le samedi 20 juillet 2013 à 19:21 -0400, The Wanderer a écrit : Making the switch away from the entrenched sysvinit is visibly very difficult, at least as a social matter, even in the environment we have. systemd et al.,

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-21 Thread The Wanderer
On 07/21/2013 05:04 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le samedi 20 juillet 2013 à 19:21 -0400, The Wanderer a écrit : [I am almost certainly going to regret this.] I hope so. Please don't be a jerk. Making the switch away from the entrenched sysvinit is visibly very difficult, at least as a

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-21 Thread Игорь Пашев
2013/7/22 Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net: We would be effectively locked in. We are locked in sysvinit. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Игорь Пашев pashev.i...@gmail.com writes: 2013/7/22 Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net: We would be effectively locked in. We are locked in sysvinit. Except we're not: both systemd and upstart support sysvinit scripts. Which is why we can do a gradual migration, or even switch back and forth

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-21 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 21 juillet 2013 23:48 CEST, Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net : Making the switch away from the entrenched sysvinit is visibly very difficult, at least as a social matter, even in the environment we have. systemd et al., by virtue of the integration which is apparently one of their

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-21 Thread Matthias Klumpp
2013/7/22 Russ Allbery r...@debian.org: Игорь Пашев pashev.i...@gmail.com writes: 2013/7/22 Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net: We would be effectively locked in. We are locked in sysvinit. Except we're not: both systemd and upstart support sysvinit scripts. Which is why we can do a gradual

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-21 Thread Uoti Urpala
The Wanderer wrote: On 07/21/2013 05:04 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le samedi 20 juillet 2013 à 19:21 -0400, The Wanderer a écrit : Making the switch away from the entrenched sysvinit is visibly very difficult, at least as a social matter, even in the environment we have. systemd et al.,

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-21 Thread The Wanderer
On 07/21/2013 07:06 PM, Matthias Klumpp wrote: 2013/7/22 Russ Allbery r...@debian.org: Игорь Пашев pashev.i...@gmail.com writes: We are locked in sysvinit. Except we're not: both systemd and upstart support sysvinit scripts. Which is why we can do a gradual migration, or even switch back

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-21 Thread The Wanderer
On 07/21/2013 06:12 PM, Игорь Пашев wrote: 2013/7/22 Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net: We would be effectively locked in. We are locked in sysvinit. Agreed, to an extent we are. And you can see how hard it's being to migrate away from that, even once alternatives have been implemented.

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-21 Thread brian m. carlson
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 02:59:20AM +0300, Uoti Urpala wrote: Whether your argument was honest or not, I think it was a bad one. OK, perhaps you have concerns about the philosophy behind systemd and where that might take it in the future. Such philosophy issues are rather subjective. But your

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-21 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 05:59:25PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: On 07/21/2013 05:04 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le samedi 20 juillet 2013 à 19:21 -0400, The Wanderer a écrit : [I am almost certainly going to regret this.] I hope so. Please don't be a jerk. Making the switch away from

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-20 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 07/20/2013 07:39 AM, Adam Borowski wrote: So why do we even discuss popcon data here Because John Paul Adrian Glaubitz started writing about it, and defended strongly that it is be data we should consider... He is currently alone defending that opinion. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

not really vaporware but almost (Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-20 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Samstag, 20. Juli 2013, Thomas Goirand wrote: The problem isn't that OpenRC isn't fit. The problem is that *NONE* of the projects are fitting *ALL* of our requirements. All of the 3 solutions have problems. so, there is systemd and there is upstart. what is the 3rd solution? After

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-20 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 20 juillet 2013 à 13:40 +0800, Thomas Goirand a écrit : The problem isn't that OpenRC isn't fit. The problem is that *NONE* of the projects are fitting *ALL* of our requirements. What requirements are you talking about? Which requirements are not met by systemd? If this is about

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-20 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 20 Jul 2013 11:27:58 +0200, Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org wrote: If this is about kFreeBSD, it would be nice and all to share the init system with these ports, but it should certainly not have an influence on the choice of init system for the Linux ports. Why? Grüße Marc --

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-20 Thread Holger Levsen
On Samstag, 20. Juli 2013, Marc Haber wrote: Why? http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/05/msg00725.html signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-20 Thread Ondřej Surý
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 11:14 PM, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: I would *hope* a lot of Debian developers would do things like that, for any of the options! There's no substitute for actually trying the software and seeing how easy it is to use, how well it works, and how difficult it

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-20 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 20 July 2013 08:17, Marc Haber mh+debian-de...@zugschlus.de wrote: On Sat, 20 Jul 2013 11:27:58 +0200, Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org wrote: If this is about kFreeBSD, it would be nice and all to share the init system with these ports, but it should certainly not have an influence on the

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-20 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
(On my phone, I hate this ui, sorry for the CC Russ) On Jul 19, 2013 5:30 PM, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: David Kalnischkies kalnischk...@gmail.com writes: Of course, both analysis are obviously flawed as this popcon data can't really be interpreted that way as its an apple to

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-20 Thread Matthias Klumpp
2013/7/20 Paul Tagliamonte paul...@debian.org: Yes. This. I was a pretty avid syatemd hater, but having used it for a solid 6 months, I can't imagine using anything else. I find myself installing systemd as one of the first things I do when I get a new install. If you're laying down systemd

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-20 Thread The Wanderer
[I am almost certainly going to regret this.] On 07/20/2013 12:52 PM, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: (On my phone, I hate this ui, sorry for the CC Russ) On Jul 19, 2013 5:30 PM, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: I would *hope* a lot of Debian developers would do things like that, for any of

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-19 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 07/19/2013 08:32 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 07/18/2013 09:45 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote: If OpenRC isn't what we need (I still believe it does address a bunch of problems and that the fact it can work for non-Linux port is a key factor), then I'd be for Upstart. I do maintain my

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-19 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Thu, July 18, 2013 09:15, Thomas Goirand wrote: - Fast startup I thought everyone claimed (including systemd supporters) that this was a teenager side effect which we didn't care much about. Definitely not. Debian should care about fast boot a lot. Rebooting a system, planned or not, is

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-19 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Russ Allbery The upstart package takes over process 1, so 100% of the systems with the upstart package installed are using it as process 1. The same is true of systemd-sysv, of course. This isn't necessarily true. I used to run my laptop with systemd as pid 1 and the upstart package

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-19 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 07/19/2013 10:15 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: Popcon however speaks a completely different language: Even if that was truth (Russ showed it might not), I don't see how this is a counter argument to what I wrote. Besides this, this is not a voting system: if we were governed only by a majority

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-19 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 10:50:36AM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: On Thu, July 18, 2013 09:15, Thomas Goirand wrote: - Fast startup I thought everyone claimed (including systemd supporters) that this was a teenager side effect which we didn't care much about. Definitely not. Debian

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-19 Thread heroxbd
Hi William, William Giokas 1007...@gmail.com writes: * 'Graphical UI: yes': Nope. side note: it is from http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/why.html Cheers, Benda pgpLYHGdS_e5Z.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-19 Thread Mathieu Parent
2013/7/19 Russ Allbery r...@debian.org: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de writes: On 07/19/2013 02:55 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: I believe the equivalent systemd package to the upstart package is the systemd-sysv package, so 174 rather than 1604 is perhaps the better number

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-19 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 07/19/2013 06:57 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: sysvinit148865 99.83% The reason might be that systemd does not conflict with sysvinit :). Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin -

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-19 Thread Bernd Schubert
On 07/19/2013 06:43 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 07/19/2013 05:43 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote: We try to have technical reasoning, which is (one of) the reason this list exists. This has nothing to do with voting. If we actually did, the choice would have already been made for systemd

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-19 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Friday, July 19, 2013 06:35:48 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 07/19/2013 06:12 PM, Mathieu Parent wrote: As the recommended way to install systemd is using init= and not installing systemd-sysv, maybe the popcon vote count is the correct metric? Plus, systemd isn't pulled in

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-19 Thread Uoti Urpala
Scott Kitterman wrote: On Friday, July 19, 2013 06:35:48 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 07/19/2013 06:12 PM, Mathieu Parent wrote: systemd is used regulardly on about 1200 popcon submiters, upstart on about 600 (this is even less than 100 from 2013-07-04, but what happened!).

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-19 Thread Scott Kitterman
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de wrote: On 07/19/2013 06:57 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: sysvinit 148865 99.83% The reason might be that systemd does not conflict with sysvinit :). So are we playing word games now or trying to solve a problem? According to the popcon

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-19 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 07/19/2013 05:43 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote: We try to have technical reasoning, which is (one of) the reason this list exists. This has nothing to do with voting. If we actually did, the choice would have already been made for systemd long time ago. Don't make yourself any illusions. It has

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-19 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 07/19/2013 07:47 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de wrote: On 07/19/2013 06:57 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: sysvinit148865 99.83% The reason might be that systemd does not conflict with sysvinit :). So are we playing word games now

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-19 Thread Russ Allbery
David Kalnischkies kalnischk...@gmail.com writes: Of course, both analysis are obviously flawed as this popcon data can't really be interpreted that way as its an apple to banana comparison and way too few datapoints, but everyone likes misinterpret statistics as proven by this thread – and

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-19 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 8:48 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de wrote: On 07/19/2013 07:47 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de wrote: On 07/19/2013 06:57 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: sysvinit148865 99.83% The

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-19 Thread heroxbd
Dear Russ, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: I would *hope* a lot of Debian developers would do things like that, for any of the options! There's no substitute for actually trying the software and seeing how easy it is to use, how well it works, and how difficult it is to support. There

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-19 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 07/19/2013 05:25 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 07/19/2013 10:15 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: Popcon however speaks a completely different language: Even if that was truth (Russ showed it might not), I don't see how this is a counter argument to what I wrote. Besides this, this is

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-19 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 07/19/2013 06:12 PM, Mathieu Parent wrote: As the recommended way to install systemd is using init= and not installing systemd-sysv, maybe the popcon vote count is the correct metric? Plus, systemd isn't pulled in by anything else which means when it's there it's there because it was

modern features and OpenRC (was: Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports)

2013-07-19 Thread heroxbd
Dear all, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de writes: Says the guy who posted this to back up his chain of arguments: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Talk:Comparison_of_init_systems Excuse me for hijacking this reply. On the wiki page. I revised it into present form last

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-19 Thread Arto Jantunen
Scott Kitterman deb...@kitterman.com writes: On Friday, July 19, 2013 06:35:48 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: The data that we have now is the actual data and it shows upstart isn't very popular. sysvinit 148865 99.83% Neither is systemd. The numbers for either are small enough

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-19 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 10:43:33PM +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote: But we have also gnome-settings-daemon in experimental which depends without an alternative on it. Now, if you look really close on the popcon data for systemd you see that in March 2013 there is a plateau reached for systemd,

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-19 Thread Vincent Cheng
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 9:35 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de wrote: On 07/19/2013 06:12 PM, Mathieu Parent wrote: As the recommended way to install systemd is using init= and not installing systemd-sysv, maybe the popcon vote count is the correct metric? Plus,

[OT] Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-19 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 07:14:31PM -0700, Vincent Cheng a écrit : If/when gnome-shell 3.8 hits unstable and systemd gets forced on end users as well...I dare say that the general outcry here on debian-devel would make the past network-manager related threads look tame in comparison. I offer

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-19 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 07/20/2013 12:43 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 07/19/2013 05:43 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote: We try to have technical reasoning, which is (one of) the reason this list exists. This has nothing to do with voting. If we actually did, the choice would have already been made for

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 07/18/2013 01:29 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: - Reliable, low-maintenance system startup (no races / ordering bugs) Could you point at these bugs? - Reliable service supervision Have you tried using rc-status? Or do you mean restarting crashed daemons? - Fast startup I thought everyone

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread William Giokas
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 03:15:12PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 07/18/2013 01:29 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: - Reliable, low-maintenance system startup (no races / ordering bugs) Could you point at these bugs? - Reliable service supervision Have you tried using rc-status? Or do you

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread Игорь Пашев
2013/7/18 William Giokas 1007...@gmail.com: Having not used OpenRC, I have no comment on the real world advantages or disadvantages of either init system I'm a user of Gentoo and Debian. I do not care of what to type: 'emerge -avuND world' or 'apt-get upgrade' I do not care of which init

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 07/18/2013 04:30 PM, William Giokas wrote: If you're going to cite something showing that OpenRC is good, please don't show something that is so obviously biased it's not even funny anymore. I agree that this wiki page is obviously biased, and that is to be expected at the wiki.gentoo.org

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 06:33:08PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: It's about the same on the other side when Lennart tells about Systemd debunking myths. If this wasn't about systemd, I'd ask for some arguments here. But as all systemd discussions are full of FUD anyway, it won't help much here.

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 07/18/2013 09:15 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Talk:Comparison_of_init_systems friendly upstreamyes no NO YES Really? You put something like this in a technical comparison chart? And systemd has a graphical user interface? Wow, I don't even...

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread Gergely Nagy
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de writes: On 07/18/2013 09:15 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Talk:Comparison_of_init_systems friendly upstream yes no NO YES Really? You put something like this in a technical comparison chart? A

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 07/18/2013 01:48 PM, Gergely Nagy wrote: A friendly upstream *is* important in a comparsion chart. Working with an unfriendly, or even hostile upstream is not something you want to have in a core component of an operating system. Friendliness has nothing to do with accepting every single

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread Simon McVittie
On 18/07/13 12:12, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: And systemd has a graphical user interface? Yes, systemadm(1) in systemd-ui. It was recently split into a separate (upstream and Debian source) package. It's hardly comprehensive, but it exists. S -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 07/18/2013 07:00 PM, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 06:33:08PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: It's about the same on the other side when Lennart tells about Systemd debunking myths. I'd ask for some arguments here. This has already been discussed. You can look in the

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 07/18/2013 02:28 PM, Simon McVittie wrote: On 18/07/13 12:12, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: And systemd has a graphical user interface? Yes, systemadm(1) in systemd-ui. It was recently split into a separate (upstream and Debian source) package. It's hardly comprehensive, but it exists.

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 07/18/2013 07:12 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 07/18/2013 09:15 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Talk:Comparison_of_init_systems friendly upstream yes no NO YES Really? You put something like this in a technical comparison chart? I wasn't

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 08:50:17PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Talk:Comparison_of_init_systems friendly upstream yes no NO YES Really? You put something like this in a technical comparison chart? I wasn't the one who wrote it. You linked

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 08:47:27PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: It's about the same on the other side when Lennart tells about Systemd debunking myths. I'd ask for some arguments here. This has already been discussed. You can look in the archive. I don't think so. -- WBR, wRAR -- To

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread The Wanderer
On 07/18/2013 08:19 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 07/18/2013 01:48 PM, Gergely Nagy wrote: A friendly upstream *is* important in a comparsion chart. Working with an unfriendly, or even hostile upstream is not something you want to have in a core component of an operating system.

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 03:15:12PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 07/18/2013 01:29 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: - Reliable, low-maintenance system startup (no races / ordering bugs) Could you point at these bugs? No. Look, Thomas, you asked what the goals of event-based init systems are, and

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 07/18/2013 08:21 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: But unless you've only ever used Debian on systems with a flat partition:filesystem structure, with no network filesystem mounts, no LVM/RAID/LUKS, and no networks more complicated than a single interface, you've either been affected by these race

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Thomas Goirand zigo at debian.org writes: You have to define what problem we are trying to solve. And this still hasn't been defined yet in this list. What for? Seriously. There are a whole lot of features in systemd which I, for one, do NOT want to do without any longer. Decent process

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 07/19/2013 02:21 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: But unless you've only ever used Debian on systems with a flat partition:filesystem structure, with no network filesystem mounts, no LVM/RAID/LUKS, and no networks more complicated than a single interface, you've either been affected by these race

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 03:45:21AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: So that brings me to ask: do you have an idea of how much work it would be to have Upstart ported to kFreeBSD or Hurd (even if that would mean loosing some of the functionality (obviously cgroups comes to mind))? As for cgroups,

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 18 juillet 2013 21:45 CEST, Thomas Goirand z...@debian.org : So that brings me to ask: do you have an idea of how much work it would be to have Upstart ported to kFreeBSD or Hurd (even if that would mean loosing some of the functionality (obviously cgroups comes to mind))? Upstart doesn't

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Thomas Goirand (2013-07-19): So that brings me to ask: do you have an idea of how much work it would be to have Upstart ported to kFreeBSD or Hurd (even if that would mean loosing some of the functionality (obviously cgroups comes to mind))? Surely, you could have tried “porting upstart

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 18 July 2013 21:14, Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org wrote: Thomas Goirand (2013-07-19): So that brings me to ask: do you have an idea of how much work it would be to have Upstart ported to kFreeBSD or Hurd (even if that would mean loosing some of the functionality (obviously cgroups comes

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 07/18/2013 09:45 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote: If OpenRC isn't what we need (I still believe it does address a bunch of problems and that the fact it can work for non-Linux port is a key factor), then I'd be for Upstart. I do maintain my packages so that they work for both Ubuntu and Debian,

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread Russ Allbery
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de writes: Popcon however speaks a completely different language: http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=upstart http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=systemd Currently 64 counted installations for upstart versus 1604 counted

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread Cyril Brulebois
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz (2013-07-19): On a sidenote: Anyone can explain what could probably have caused this sharp drop in installations? Were there any significant problems with the current version of upstart in Debian? Probably that?

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 07/19/2013 02:55 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: I believe the equivalent systemd package to the upstart package is the systemd-sysv package, so 174 rather than 1604 is perhaps the better number to use. I'm not sure whether I can follow. I am using systemd on both my desktop and my laptop and

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread Matthias Klumpp
2013/7/19 Russ Allbery r...@debian.org: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de writes: Popcon however speaks a completely different language: http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=upstart http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=systemd Currently 64 counted installations

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Matthias Klumpp m...@debian.org writes: 2013/7/19 Russ Allbery r...@debian.org: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de writes: Popcon however speaks a completely different language: http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=upstart

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread Uoti Urpala
Russ Allbery wrote: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de writes: Popcon however speaks a completely different language: http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=upstart http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=systemd Currently 64 counted installations for upstart

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread Russ Allbery
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de writes: On 07/19/2013 02:55 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: I believe the equivalent systemd package to the upstart package is the systemd-sysv package, so 174 rather than 1604 is perhaps the better number to use. I'm not sure whether I can

Re: /usr (was: Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this) means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 08:06:27PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 11:25:42AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 05:07:39PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: - using the same infrastructure, it's also possible to mount /etc in the initramfs so that you can

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread Scott Leggett
On 19/07/13 11:48, Russ Allbery wrote: I didn't know about the init= method and was assuming the systemd-sysv method. Anyway, my point is that I suspect the vast majority of the systems with the systemd package installed are not actually using it as process 1. The upstart package takes

Re: Pulseaudio (was ... Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports)

2013-07-17 Thread Ondřej Surý
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 6:29 AM, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 10:44:21AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: My most recent experience with PulseAudio came when I noticed that WoW (run through Wine) was producing crackling, stuttering sound again; this

PulseAudio (was: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports)

2013-07-17 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 15:43:32 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de wrote: Some older versions prior 1.0.x were broken or had exposed bugs in ALSA drivers which needed to be fixed. These days, however, PulseAudio is rock-stable. It usually breaks only for people who

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-17 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 14:09:20 +0200, Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org wrote: What I find rude is that a minority of idiots is taking the project hostage of their ridiculous demands, preventing a quick switch to a decent init systems, for reasons that are anything but technical. Once more, I find

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