Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] merging systemd back to a singular package

2012-08-28 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Nicolas Sebrecht nsebre...@piing.fr wrote: Notice that debian is working on a tool to automagically convert unit systemd files into initscripts. https://github.com/akhilvij/systemd-to-sysvinit-converter If that works, it would be great. However, I'm very

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] merging systemd back to a singular package

2012-08-28 Thread Guus Snijders
Op 28 aug. 2012 10:06 schreef Tom Gundersen t...@jklm.no het volgende: On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Nicolas Sebrecht nsebre...@piing.fr wrote: Notice that debian is working on a tool to automagically convert unit systemd files into initscripts.

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] merging systemd back to a singular package

2012-08-28 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Guus Snijders gsnijd...@gmail.com wrote: Op 28 aug. 2012 10:06 schreef Tom Gundersen t...@jklm.no het volgende: If that works, it would be great. However, I'm very skeptical. I don't see how this could possibly work for services of type other than forking

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] merging systemd back to a singular package

2012-08-28 Thread Lukas Jirkovsky
On 27 August 2012 18:16, Tom Gundersen t...@jklm.no wrote: On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Lukas Jirkovsky l.jirkov...@gmail.com wrote: I can help (or at least try to) with support for initscripts Anyone who wants to help, please join arch-proje...@archlinux.org, review patches, use

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] merging systemd back to a singular package

2012-08-28 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Lukas Jirkovsky l.jirkov...@gmail.com wrote: I'm pretty sure at least Ubuntu will keep patches to make some of such apps work without systemd. So far we see that whenever systemd is made optional, it is optional at compile-time rather than at run-time (which

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] merging systemd back to a singular package

2012-08-28 Thread Lukas Jirkovsky
On 28 August 2012 11:05, Tom Gundersen t...@jklm.no wrote: On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Lukas Jirkovsky l.jirkov...@gmail.com wrote: I'm pretty sure at least Ubuntu will keep patches to make some of such apps work without systemd. So far we see that whenever systemd is made optional,

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] merging systemd back to a singular package

2012-08-28 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Nicolas Sebrecht nsebre...@piing.fr wrote: [...]its communication channels should be installed before the daemon is started up [...] This is the point. If a daemon has been customized for systemd (which some have, and hopefully more will), then it will

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] merging systemd back to a singular package

2012-08-28 Thread Kevin Chadwick
at some point other packages are likely to depend on you booting with systemd (NetworkManager, polkit, Gnome, etc.). Do you mean the packages compiled for Arch with systemd enabled options like firefoxes with dbus? I don't see these packages removing more than half their userbase and I don't

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] merging systemd back to a singular package

2012-08-28 Thread Kevin Chadwick
I'm pretty sure at least Ubuntu will keep patches to make some of such apps work without systemd. I can maintain these in community if that time comes. But I can care about KDE only, making GNOME work without systemd would be a too difficult (I don't use it and they are much more likely to

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] merging systemd back to a singular package

2012-08-28 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
Hi, Apparently, Gentoo has recently forked udev. [1] I am not completely sure since the main poster is a n00b according to the gentoo forum ratings, but rest of the discussions seems legit. -- Cheers and Regards Jayesh Badwaik stop html mail | always bottom-post www.asciiribbon.org |

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] merging systemd back to a singular package

2012-08-28 Thread Zeke Sulastin
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 6:55 AM, Jayesh Badwaik jayesh.badwai...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Apparently, Gentoo has recently forked udev. [1] I am not completely sure since the main poster is a n00b according to the gentoo forum ratings, but rest of the discussions seems legit. Actually, a guy

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] merging systemd back to a singular package

2012-08-28 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
Ahh, I thought so. It was only forked yesterday, so there is not much to be expected in terms of changes right now. But going by the number of veterans and others who have commented on it, I thought that it is possible that this is legit. Also, the guys there are talking like they are the one

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] merging systemd back to a singular package

2012-08-27 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sun, 26 Aug 2012 17:15:39 -0400 schrieb Dave Reisner d...@falconindy.com: I apologize for this being somewhat after-the-fact. It was discussed on IRC, but that of course doesn't necessarily cater to a wide enough audience. Some of you have probably already noticed that systemd 189 now

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] merging systemd back to a singular package

2012-08-27 Thread Daniel Wallace
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 07:59:52AM +0200, Heiko Baums wrote: Am Sun, 26 Aug 2012 17:15:39 -0400 schrieb Dave Reisner d...@falconindy.com: I apologize for this being somewhat after-the-fact. It was discussed on IRC, but that of course doesn't necessarily cater to a wide enough audience.

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] merging systemd back to a singular package

2012-08-27 Thread Ike Devolder
Op maandag 27 augustus 2012 07:59:52 schreef Heiko Baums: Am Sun, 26 Aug 2012 17:15:39 -0400 schrieb Dave Reisner d...@falconindy.com: I apologize for this being somewhat after-the-fact. It was discussed on IRC, but that of course doesn't necessarily cater to a wide enough audience. Some

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] merging systemd back to a singular package

2012-08-27 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase
Heiko Baums li...@baums-on-web.de wrote: Am Sun, 26 Aug 2012 17:15:39 -0400 schrieb Dave Reisner d...@falconindy.com: I apologize for this being somewhat after-the-fact. It was discussed on IRC, but that of course doesn't necessarily cater to a wide enough audience. Some of you have probably

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] merging systemd back to a?singular package

2012-08-27 Thread Daniel Wallace
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 08:24:21AM +0200, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: Heiko Baums li...@baums-on-web.de wrote: Am Sun, 26 Aug 2012 17:15:39 -0400 schrieb Dave Reisner d...@falconindy.com: I apologize for this being somewhat after-the-fact. It was discussed on IRC, but that of course

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] merging systemd back to a singular package

2012-08-27 Thread Geert Hendrickx
On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 17:15:39 -0400, Dave Reisner wrote: Hi, I apologize for this being somewhat after-the-fact. It was discussed on IRC, but that of course doesn't necessarily cater to a wide enough audience. Some of you have probably already noticed that systemd 189 now provides,

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] merging systemd back to a singular package

2012-08-27 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Geert Hendrickx ge...@hendrickx.be wrote: A systemd upgrade question (not related to this particular update), do you generally need to reboot when systemd is upgraded? In general, it is probably a good idea to reboot after upgrading low-level packages. In the

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] merging systemd back to a singular package

2012-08-27 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 7:59 AM, Heiko Baums li...@baums-on-web.de wrote: Nobody is forcing systemd on anybody. Wasn't it this what was always said by the devs in all those long threads about systemd? And what are you doing now? Isn't this not forcing it on everybody? No one were forcing

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] merging systemd back to a singular package

2012-08-27 Thread Joakim Hernberg
On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 09:48:48 +0200 Tom Gundersen t...@jklm.no wrote: Since the above quoted statement was made, a decision was taken to move to systemd by default, so it clearly no longer applies. While you are still free to use initscripts, at some point other packages are likely to depend

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] merging systemd back to a singular package

2012-08-27 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Aug 27, 2012 10:32 AM, Joakim Hernberg j...@alchemy.lu wrote: Please support our traditional initscripts as long as possible, I will. I just don't know how long that will be, so people should prepare to move. Tom

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] merging systemd back to a singular package

2012-08-27 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 27.08.2012 10:32, schrieb Joakim Hernberg: On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 09:48:48 +0200 Tom Gundersen t...@jklm.no wrote: Since the above quoted statement was made, a decision was taken to move to systemd by default, so it clearly no longer applies. While you are still free to use initscripts, at

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] merging systemd back to a singular package

2012-08-27 Thread Joakim Hernberg
On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 10:48:32 +0200 Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org wrote: But this only concerns the booting itself. As consolekit is unmaintained, polkit will soon depend on systemd. The next Gnome version will require systemd - more to come. I don't run gnome, but kde is just as bad in

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] merging systemd back to a singular package

2012-08-27 Thread Jakob Herrmann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, \begin{quote} But this only concerns the booting itself. As consolekit is unmaintained, polkit will soon depend on systemd. The next Gnome version will require systemd - more to come \end{quote} Isn't it possible to start systemd daemon-like

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] merging systemd back to a singular package

2012-08-27 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Mon, 27 Aug 2012 11:30:46 +0200 schrieb Joakim Hernberg j...@alchemy.lu: I don't run gnome, but kde is just as bad in this case :( Try Xfce. ;-) Heiko

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] merging systemd back to a singular package

2012-08-27 Thread Stephen E. Baker
On 27/08/2012 9:39 AM, Heiko Baums wrote: Am Mon, 27 Aug 2012 11:30:46 +0200 schrieb Joakim Hernberg j...@alchemy.lu: I don't run gnome, but kde is just as bad in this case :( Try Xfce. ;-) http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/consolekit/ would suggest that xfce is not safe in this

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] merging systemd back to a singular package

2012-08-27 Thread Lukas Jirkovsky
On 27 August 2012 10:40, Tom Gundersen t...@jklm.no wrote: On Aug 27, 2012 10:32 AM, Joakim Hernberg j...@alchemy.lu wrote: Please support our traditional initscripts as long as possible, I will. I just don't know how long that will be, so people should prepare to move. Tom I can help (or

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] merging systemd back to a singular package

2012-08-27 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Lukas Jirkovsky l.jirkov...@gmail.com wrote: I can help (or at least try to) with support for initscripts Anyone who wants to help, please join arch-proje...@archlinux.org, review patches, use initscripts from git/testing and report problems. if it's going to

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] merging systemd back to a singular package

2012-08-27 Thread Sujith
Thomas Bächler wrote: Please support our traditional initscripts as long as possible, as I for one really don't look forwards to systemd, at least not at this point in time. Reasons excluded to avoid yet another flamefest...:( If you search the archives, you will notice that longer

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] merging systemd back to a singular package

2012-08-27 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
On Monday 27 Aug 2012 11:30:46 Joakim Hernberg wrote: I don't run gnome, but kde is just as bad in this case :( I use KDE regularly. It works perfectly fine with/without pulseaudio. (Actually since archlinux does not install pulseaudio by default, I did not notice it was not installed for a