Re: [systemd-devel] feature request: dlopen

2015-02-23 Thread Tobias Hunger
Hello Luke, On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 12:58 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton l...@lkcl.net wrote: I understood most of these dependencies to be indirect: Packages that depend on other packages that in turn depend on libsystemd. Is that correct? that's right. so, what that means is that the

Re: [systemd-devel] feature request: dlopen

2015-02-23 Thread Tobias Hunger
Hi Luke, On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 3:08 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton l...@lkcl.net wrote: the problem, zbigniew, is that the intended use of this silent noop feature - to make it *possible* to have an alternative PID1 - *hasn't happened*. any upstream software developer who has added in

Re: [systemd-devel] feature request: dlopen

2015-02-23 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 23.02.15 01:37, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton (l...@lkcl.net) wrote: Convince the upstream developers in question not to link against systemd's libraries, or convince the distros not to package it like that. well, you could provide hints in the documentation (and force them to

Re: [systemd-devel] feature request: dlopen

2015-02-23 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 6:17 AM, Martin Pitt martin.p...@ubuntu.com wrote: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton [2015-02-23 2:08 +]: the problem, zbigniew, is that the intended use of this silent noop feature - to make it *possible* to have an alternative PID1 - *hasn't happened*. It sure has.

Re: [systemd-devel] feature request: dlopen

2015-02-23 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 23.02.2015 um 13:41 schrieb Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton: also misses the larger picture. what the distros do is fait-accomplit driven by the decisions of the upstream developers. what the upstream developers do is fait-accomplit driven by the decisions of their dependencies. everyone has

Re: [systemd-devel] feature request: dlopen

2015-02-23 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 23.02.15 12:41, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton (l...@lkcl.net) wrote: Luke, you are now on moderation. I am sorry, but I don't find what you are writing particularly useful or new. You keep repeating the same untruths, and I'd prefer if we could again focus on technical discussions on the

Re: [systemd-devel] feature request: dlopen

2015-02-23 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 02:08:26AM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: the problem, zbigniew, is that the intended use of this silent noop feature - to make it *possible* to have an alternative PID1 - *hasn't happened*. any upstream software developer who has added in support for

Re: [systemd-devel] feature request: dlopen

2015-02-22 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 9:35 PM, Michael Biebl mbi...@gmail.com wrote: There is no such dependency in Debian either [1]. Luke simply has no idea what he is talking about. It would be great if Luke did some basic research and educate himself and not spread such misinformation. michael,

Re: [systemd-devel] feature request: dlopen

2015-02-22 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 9:25 PM, Greg KH gre...@linuxfoundation.org wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 08:24:37PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: so i'm not going to protest - i'm going to try a different approach. i'd like you to look at this list of debian packages that are dependent

Re: [systemd-devel] feature request: dlopen

2015-02-22 Thread Martin Pitt
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton [2015-02-23 2:08 +]: the problem, zbigniew, is that the intended use of this silent noop feature - to make it *possible* to have an alternative PID1 - *hasn't happened*. It sure has. Debian supports systemd, SysV init, and to a lesser degree OpenRC and

Re: [systemd-devel] feature request: dlopen

2015-02-22 Thread Cristian Rodríguez
El 22/02/15 a las 23:08, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton escribió: the problem, zbigniew, is that the intended use of this silent noop feature - to make it *possible* to have an alternative PID1 - *hasn't happened*. any upstream software developer who has added in support for systemd has done

Re: [systemd-devel] feature request: dlopen

2015-02-22 Thread Cristian Rodríguez
El 22/02/15 a las 22:37, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton escribió: well, you could provide hints in the documentation (and force them to be read by deliberately changing the API) Wow.. so what you want is even nuttier than I thought.. that would be a good place to start, showing people how

Re: [systemd-devel] feature request: dlopen

2015-02-22 Thread Shawn Landden
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton l...@lkcl.net wrote: i don't know if you've seen this yet: http://news.slashdot.org/story/15/02/15/1959209/removing-libsystemd0-from-a-live-running-debian-system my name's luke leighton, i'm a software libre advocate, and the

Re: [systemd-devel] feature request: dlopen

2015-02-22 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 11:58:25PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 9:10 AM, Tobias Hunger tobias.hun...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Luke, I am mostly a lurker on the systemd mailing list, so my opinion does not carry weight in this community. On Tue, Feb

Re: [systemd-devel] feature request: dlopen

2015-02-22 Thread Cameron Norman
On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 4:52 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek zbys...@in.waw.pl wrote: On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 11:58:25PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 9:10 AM, Tobias Hunger tobias.hun...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Luke, I am mostly a lurker on the systemd

Re: [systemd-devel] feature request: dlopen

2015-02-22 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 1:25 AM, Cameron Norman camerontnor...@gmail.com wrote: ...except that its introduction (usually --with-libsystemd) in those 100 (or so) packages has been done in a mutually-exclusive, hard-compile-time switch that *excludes* the possibility of dynamic (runtime)

Re: [systemd-devel] feature request: dlopen

2015-02-22 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 9:10 AM, Tobias Hunger tobias.hun...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Luke, I am mostly a lurker on the systemd mailing list, so my opinion does not carry weight in this community. On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 9:24 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton l...@lkcl.net wrote: so i'm not going

Re: [systemd-devel] feature request: dlopen

2015-02-22 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 10:00 AM, Lennart Poettering lenn...@poettering.net wrote: On Tue, 17.02.15 20:24, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton (l...@lkcl.net) wrote: i note that there was announcement recently that the systemd team 'listens to users', so i am taking you at your word on that. Hmm,

Re: [systemd-devel] feature request: dlopen

2015-02-22 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 12:52 AM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek zbys...@in.waw.pl wrote: On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 11:58:25PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: ...except that its introduction (usually --with-libsystemd) in those 100 (or so) packages has been done in a mutually-exclusive,

Re: [systemd-devel] feature request: dlopen

2015-02-18 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Tue, 17.02.15 20:24, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton (l...@lkcl.net) wrote: i note that there was announcement recently that the systemd team 'listens to users', so i am taking you at your word on that. Hmm, I am not aware of such an announcement. I generally listen though, but I don't always

Re: [systemd-devel] feature request: dlopen

2015-02-18 Thread Tobias Hunger
Hi Luke, I am mostly a lurker on the systemd mailing list, so my opinion does not carry weight in this community. On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 9:24 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton l...@lkcl.net wrote: so i'm not going to protest - i'm going to try a different approach. i'd like you to look at this

[systemd-devel] feature request: dlopen

2015-02-17 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
i don't know if you've seen this yet: http://news.slashdot.org/story/15/02/15/1959209/removing-libsystemd0-from-a-live-running-debian-system my name's luke leighton, i'm a software libre advocate, and the first major contribution that i made to software libre was to help bridge the impossible

Re: [systemd-devel] feature request: dlopen

2015-02-17 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 08:24:37PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: so i'm not going to protest - i'm going to try a different approach. i'd like you to look at this list of debian packages that are dependent on libsystemd0:

Re: [systemd-devel] feature request: dlopen

2015-02-17 Thread Michael Biebl
2015-02-17 22:25 GMT+01:00 Greg KH gre...@linuxfoundation.org: On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 08:24:37PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: so i'm not going to protest - i'm going to try a different approach. i'd like you to look at this list of debian packages that are dependent on

Re: [systemd-devel] feature request: dlopen

2015-02-17 Thread Tom Gundersen
Hi Luke, On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 9:24 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton l...@lkcl.net wrote: i note that there was announcement recently that the systemd team 'listens to users', so i am taking you at your word on that. I believe we are listening a lot. That does not necessarily mean that

Re: [systemd-devel] feature request: dlopen

2015-02-17 Thread Michael Biebl
2015-02-17 22:35 GMT+01:00 Michael Biebl mbi...@gmail.com: 2015-02-17 22:25 GMT+01:00 Greg KH gre...@linuxfoundation.org: On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 08:24:37PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: so i'm not going to protest - i'm going to try a different approach. i'd like you to look at