On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 10:12:43AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 07:54:43AM +0000, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > Er, let's not call upstream lazy just because they don't want to do > > work that has no interest for themselves. > > I don't see what else I should call them. > > I'm not saying that being lazy is necessarily a bad thing
It's a perjorative term and people could interpret it to mean bad. > But I do think that writing portable software isn't that hard, and that not > doing it is pure lazyness. It's not about difficulty, systemd isn't not-portable simply because the authors haven't got around to it yet; it fundamentally relies on a Linux-only technology. The features you've defended FreeBSD for (jails, ZFS) are not portable either; which is to say, if you write software that depends on them, it won't work on Linux. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120306140800.GA31728@debian
