Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-16 Thread Justin Strickland
heh this whole thread is hilarious, I believe upstream is eager to do so just so people will stop complaining xD On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto denisfalqu...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia archli...@ishpeck.net

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-15 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2012-08-14 16:19:18 +0200] Ralf Mardorf: Regarding to this discussion I don't like his opinion. You call this a discussion when all you've been doing is post useless oneliners and decide whether or not you like other's opinions? Please do everyone a big favor next time you are about to send

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-15 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Tuesday 14 Aug 2012 18:00:25 Ralf Mardorf wrote: Btw. my Arch Linux is absolutely stable, excepted of one change. I tested Network Manager, this software is not that good. However, IIUC switching back to netcfg which always was stable on my machine might cause issues, when not using

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-15 Thread Kevin Chadwick
If there's a developer anywhere that agrees with you, and I expect there will be at some point, udev will be forked, or something else will be developed to rival systemd. Right now, that's not even necessary. Little need but may well be. http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/891 --

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-15 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
On Wednesday 15 Aug 2012 02:13:26 Tom Gundersen wrote: Quote from IRC today: #systemd: mezcalero » falconindy: ah, arch switches for good? #systemd: mezcalero » falconindy: that's great news #systemd: mezcalero » falconindy: if you need any upstream support for this, just ping (where

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 08:58:41AM -0400, Baho Utot wrote: Yes looks like I will need to migrate to BSD I've already begun using FreeBSD. Only real complaint I have is that my notmuch database isn't backwards compatible with the one they have in ports. Other than that, it's been a smooth

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-08-09 at 13:13 -0600, Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia wrote: On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 08:58:41AM -0400, Baho Utot wrote: Yes looks like I will need to migrate to BSD I've already begun using FreeBSD. Only real complaint I have is that my notmuch database isn't backwards

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Monday 13 Aug 2012 12:34:26 Joakim Hernberg wrote: On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:50:16 +0530 Alternatively we will all be running systemd one day whether we want to or not :( I suspect that this has been the game plan all the time though. OK, flames away I guess :) Wow, this sounds so much

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 13:45 +0100, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: and easier for most users to maintain USERS? I'm a stupid user. I guess you're talking about experts. For USERS it's hard to follow changes every half year. We stupid users simply want to use the computer. We are willing to learn, but we

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Jelle van der Waa
On 08/14/12 14:59, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 13:45 +0100, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: and easier for most users to maintain USERS? I'm a stupid user. I guess you're talking about experts. For USERS it's hard to follow changes every half year. We stupid users simply want to use

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Baho Utot
On 08/14/2012 08:45 AM, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: On Monday 13 Aug 2012 12:34:26 Joakim Hernberg wrote: On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:50:16 +0530 Alternatively we will all be running systemd one day whether we want to or not :( I suspect that this has been the game plan all the time though. OK,

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Baho Utot
On 08/09/2012 03:13 PM, Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia wrote: On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 08:58:41AM -0400, Baho Utot wrote: Yes looks like I will need to migrate to BSD I've already begun using FreeBSD. Only real complaint I have is that my notmuch database isn't backwards compatible with the

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 15:05 +0200, Jelle van der Waa wrote: So better learn it now :p That might be true, since I don't think I have a choice, e.g. switching to BSD seems no alternative for my needs. I should install a second Arch with full Poettering code ... take some drugs, e.g. Diazepam ...

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Baho Utot
On 08/14/2012 08:59 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 13:45 +0100, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: and easier for most users to maintain USERS? I'm a stupid user. I guess you're talking about experts. For USERS it's hard to follow changes every half year. We stupid users simply want to use

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Baho Utot
On 08/14/2012 09:05 AM, Jelle van der Waa wrote: On 08/14/12 14:59, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 13:45 +0100, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: and easier for most users to maintain USERS? I'm a stupid user. I guess you're talking about experts. For USERS it's hard to follow changes every

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 03:05:02PM +0200, Jelle van der Waa wrote: Tell me what's hard about systemd? I think what he was saying wasn't that systemd is hard but switching is hard irrespectively of what you're switching to. That's my inference anyway.

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 09:12:30AM -0400, Baho Utot wrote: I have stopped using arch except for one server that does mail and DNS. It is presently being moved to my own linux distro based on LFS and using pacman for the package manager. Oooh! Link?

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 09:13 -0400, Baho Utot wrote: On 08/14/2012 08:59 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 13:45 +0100, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: and easier for most users to maintain USERS? I'm a stupid user. I guess you're talking about experts. For USERS it's hard to follow

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 02:37:54PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I suspect that BSD for artist that draw can be used, but for audio not. Am I mistaken? I'm not sure I understand the question. There's a lot of audio software in FreeBSD. Whether any of it suits your purposes, I can not say.

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Tuesday 14 Aug 2012 09:12:30 Baho Utot wrote: I think Arch was good back in the day. Now not so good. This sounds a bit inflammatory and over-generalised. Presumably what you don't like about Arch now is the fact that it will potentially change its default init system sometime in the

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Baho Utot
On 08/14/2012 09:23 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 09:13 -0400, Baho Utot wrote: On 08/14/2012 08:59 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 13:45 +0100, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: and easier for most users to maintain USERS? I'm a stupid user. I guess you're talking about

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 15:23 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 09:13 -0400, Baho Utot wrote: On 08/14/2012 08:59 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 13:45 +0100, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: and easier for most users to maintain USERS? I'm a stupid user. I guess

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Jelle van der Waa
On 08/09/12 22:00, Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia wrote: I think what he was saying wasn't that systemd is hard but switching is hard irrespectively of what you're switching to. Because the devs made systemd being able to use rc.conf? It takes less then a day to use systemd, but I am not

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Bjoern Franke
Am Dienstag, den 14.08.2012, 14:59 +0200 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 13:45 +0100, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: and easier for most users to maintain USERS? I'm a stupid user. I guess you're talking about experts. For USERS it's hard to follow changes every half year. We stupid

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 14.08.2012 15:08, schrieb Baho Utot: Wow, this sounds so much like a conspiracy theory. The fact is that the people who write the code inevitably dictate which software is maintained, based on their interests and convictions, and they're pretty much unanimous that systemd is a better

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Baho Utot
On 08/09/2012 04:02 PM, Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia wrote: On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 09:12:30AM -0400, Baho Utot wrote: I have stopped using arch except for one server that does mail and DNS. It is presently being moved to my own linux distro based on LFS and using pacman for the package

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 09:08:36AM -0400, Baho Utot wrote: What is so wrong with the booting using sysvinit? As a critic of systemd, perhaps I can help. Init scripts tend to wreck the determinism beacuse they can inherit your env. pid files are a problem waiting to happen. There really is

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 09:26 -0400, Baho Utot wrote: What no turbo pascal? No. Some time later I switched to the Atari ST with a 80286 hardware emulator and tested Turbo C++ on DR DOS. Today I'm just a user, I don't wish to learn how to program nowadays computers, I simply wish to use the

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 03:32:42PM +0200, Thomas B?chler wrote: And you don't want systemd because you are sure it won't do what sysvinit can, even though you didn't try it. I think the complaint here is that the switch itself is a problem. I think he made it rather clear that he's not

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Tuesday 14 Aug 2012 09:08:36 Baho Utot wrote: I don't understand your point What is so wrong with the booting using sysvinit? I really don't need what systemd offers and sysvinit does everything I need and has not failed me. There's nothing inherently wrong with it, just like there

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Baho Utot
On 08/14/2012 09:25 AM, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: On Tuesday 14 Aug 2012 09:12:30 Baho Utot wrote: I think Arch was good back in the day. Now not so good. This sounds a bit inflammatory and over-generalised. Presumably what you don't like about Arch now is the fact that it will potentially

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread gt
On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 02:05:10PM -0600, Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia wrote: On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 02:37:54PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I suspect that BSD for artist that draw can be used, but for audio not. Am I mistaken? I'm not sure I understand the question. There's a lot of

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 03:28:17PM +0200, Jelle van der Waa wrote: On 08/09/12 22:00, Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia wrote: I think what he was saying wasn't that systemd is hard but switching is hard irrespectively of what you're switching to. Because the devs made systemd being able to

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Tuesday 14 Aug 2012 14:59:43 Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 13:45 +0100, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: and easier for most users to maintain USERS? I'm a stupid user. I guess you're talking about experts. For USERS it's hard to follow changes every half year. We stupid users simply

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 15:32 +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote: So, you are annoying the whole mailing list You are speaking for the WHOLE mailing list? I read this from others a thousand times before. YOU AREN'T SPEAKING AT LEAST FOR ME! Call me a troll, I'm anyway member of this list and YOU DON'T

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 07:20:29PM +0530, gt wrote: Offtopic: Your system clock seems to be way off. So it is! Thanks for the heads up.

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Denis A . Altoé Falqueto
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Baho Utot baho-u...@columbus.rr.com wrote: On 08/09/2012 03:13 PM, Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia wrote: On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 08:58:41AM -0400, Baho Utot wrote: Yes looks like I will need to migrate to BSD I've already begun using FreeBSD. Only real

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Baho Utot
On 08/14/2012 09:32 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: Am 14.08.2012 15:08, schrieb Baho Utot: Wow, this sounds so much like a conspiracy theory. The fact is that the people who write the code inevitably dictate which software is maintained, based on their interests and convictions, and they're pretty

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Calvin Morrison
On 14 August 2012 09:52, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto denisfalqu...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Baho Utot baho-u...@columbus.rr.com wrote: On 08/09/2012 03:13 PM, Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia wrote: On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 08:58:41AM -0400, Baho Utot wrote: Yes looks like

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 14:47 +0100, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: On Tuesday 14 Aug 2012 09:08:36 Baho Utot wrote: I don't understand your point What is so wrong with the booting using sysvinit? I really don't need what systemd offers and sysvinit does everything I need and has not

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Jelle van der Waa
On 08/14/12 15:51, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: On Tuesday 14 Aug 2012 14:59:43 Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 13:45 +0100, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: and easier for most users to maintain USERS? I'm a stupid user. I guess you're talking about experts. For USERS it's hard to follow

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Baho Utot
On 08/09/2012 04:23 PM, Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia wrote: [putolin] As explained in this and other threads, it may not be a decision we, in the Arch world, get to make. Too much of upstream may actually be dictated by what a comercially-backed distro does. That is why I just may end up

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Baho Utot
On 08/14/2012 09:58 AM, Calvin Morrison wrote: [putolin] When did offering an opposing opinion to what ever is popular become tolling? what is this? /r/politics? I frankly have seen arguments both ways for systemd and initscripts, and the fact that many users do not want to switch is enough

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 14:51 +0100, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: On Tuesday 14 Aug 2012 14:59:43 Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 13:45 +0100, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: and easier for most users to maintain USERS? I'm a stupid user. I guess you're talking about experts. For USERS

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Sander Jansen
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Baho Utot baho-u...@columbus.rr.com wrote: On 08/09/2012 04:23 PM, Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia wrote: [putolin] As explained in this and other threads, it may not be a decision we, in the Arch world, get to make. Too much of upstream may actually be

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Denis A . Altoé Falqueto
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Calvin Morrison mutanttur...@gmail.com wrote: On 14 August 2012 09:52, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto denisfalqu...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Baho Utot baho-u...@columbus.rr.com wrote: On 08/09/2012 03:13 PM, Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread phani
On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 19:33:41 +0530, Jelle van der Waa je...@vdwaa.nl wrote: SuSe has systemd plans too in openSUSE's upcoming version, 12.2, systemd is default. for the moment though both init systems are being maintained. this lead to very similar discussions on the mailing lists over

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 09:55 -0400, Baho Utot wrote: BTW learn how to use filters in your email program. I'm not using Thunderbird anymore as he does, but I remember it was easy to do. However, I hope he won't ban anybody. His help is useful. Regarding to this discussion I don't like his opinion.

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 11:12 -0300, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto wrote: On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Calvin Morrison mutanttur...@gmail.com wrote: On 14 August 2012 09:52, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto denisfalqu...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Baho Utot

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Brandon Watkins
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Jelle van der Waa je...@vdwaa.nl wrote: On 08/09/12 22:00, Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia wrote: I think what he was saying wasn't that systemd is hard but switching is hard irrespectively of what you're switching to. Because the devs made systemd being able

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 16:23 +0200, Jelle van der Waa wrote: On 08/14/12 16:06, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 14:51 +0100, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: On Tuesday 14 Aug 2012 14:59:43 Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 13:45 +0100, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: and easier for most

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Baho Utot
On 08/14/2012 10:32 AM, Brandon Watkins wrote: On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Jelle van der Waa je...@vdwaa.nl wrote: On 08/09/12 22:00, Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia wrote: I think what he was saying wasn't that systemd is hard but switching is hard irrespectively of what you're

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Geoff
On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 15:23:28 +0200 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: snip ImightBeMistakenSinceIonlyTestedPascalWithTheC64AndDecidedToUseAssemblerInstead OT, but if the above is true, was that Oxford Pascal, and did you then switch to the MIKRO Assembler cartridge (as I did) ? Well

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 10:55 -0400, Baho Utot wrote: On 08/14/2012 10:32 AM, Brandon Watkins wrote: On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Jelle van der Waa je...@vdwaa.nl wrote: On 08/09/12 22:00, Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia wrote: I think what he was saying wasn't that systemd is hard but

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 10:55:02AM -0400, Baho Utot wrote: after switching to it I prefer it because I just find it a lot easier to deal with than sysvinit IMO. For example I find systemd's .service files so much cleaner and easier to understand than initscripts, they are also portable and

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Denis A . Altoé Falqueto
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 10:55 -0400, Baho Utot wrote: On 08/14/2012 10:32 AM, Brandon Watkins wrote: On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Jelle van der Waa je...@vdwaa.nl wrote: On 08/09/12 22:00, Anthony

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Calvin Morrison
On 14 August 2012 11:07, Fons Adriaensen f...@linuxaudio.org wrote: On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 10:55:02AM -0400, Baho Utot wrote: after switching to it I prefer it because I just find it a lot easier to deal with than sysvinit IMO. For example I find systemd's .service files so much cleaner and

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 16:03 +0100, Geoff wrote: On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 15:23:28 +0200 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: snip ImightBeMistakenSinceIonlyTestedPascalWithTheC64AndDecidedToUseAssemblerInstead OT, but if the above is true, was that Oxford Pascal, and did you then

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Mateusz Loskot
On 14 August 2012 16:05, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 10:55 -0400, Baho Utot wrote: Lennart Poettering by his own submission stated that he wanted udev as part of systemd and that he doesn't care about any other init system that would use udev. As with

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Kevin Chadwick
We should all be getting tired of this now. Please read the multiple threads before posting things that have already been posted. Actually don't as we will never hear from you again ;-) Who said we are going to be forced to use systemd again. I believe the systemd design spec also said he hopes

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Brandon Watkins
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Baho Utot baho-u...@columbus.rr.comwrote: On 08/14/2012 10:32 AM, Brandon Watkins wrote: On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Jelle van der Waa je...@vdwaa.nl wrote: On 08/09/12 22:00, Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia wrote: I think what he was saying wasn't

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 16:27 +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: Please CC me in any future audio discussions. Flagged! Regards, ralf

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 05:05:14PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Mailman archives! IIRC Heiko mentioned that there are more disputes about Lennart Poettering and his software on ALL mailing lists, than about anything else. Why is it like that? Probably because he has all the arrogance of DJB

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Paul Dann
Yes, but it strives to hide those sorts of transitions from the user. I believe the issue in question is the pain of change. -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. Jelle van der Waa je...@vdwaa.nl wrote: On 08/14/12 15:51, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: On Tuesday 14 Aug 2012 14:59:43

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 11:30:50AM -0400, Brandon Watkins wrote: Also, I will state once again that I think people are highly exaggerating the difficulty of transitioning an arch install to systemd, its quite simple. It sounds like you're trying to turn peoples' subjective preferences into an

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Paul Dann
Are you talking about the willingness of the Linux community in general to go through tough technical transitions for the sake of progress? If so, I'd say that's one of the big things that makes Linux so successful, and Windows so slow to improve. There are always the distros with LTS releases

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 09:46 -0600, Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia wrote: On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 05:05:14PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Mailman archives! IIRC Heiko mentioned that there are more disputes about Lennart Poettering and his software on ALL mailing lists, than about anything

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Brandon Watkins
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Paul Dann pdgid...@gmail.com wrote: Are you talking about the willingness of the Linux community in general to go through tough technical transitions for the sake of progress? If so, I'd say that's one of the big things that makes Linux so successful, and

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Paul Dann
That sounds like a perfectly fair attitude to have. Although the change may require a little thought, I really think SystemD will not suddenly make Arch difficult to use, though. Is that what you're worried about? -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. Ralf Mardorf

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 06:00:25PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I had to google, I never heard about Daniel J. Bernstein before. I suspect DJB is for Daniel J. Bernstein? Yes. If so, he seemingly isn't as half as arrogant as LP. Spend a week lurking a crypto mailing list and you may change

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Brandon Watkins
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.netwrote: On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 09:46 -0600, Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia wrote: On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 05:05:14PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Mailman archives! IIRC Heiko mentioned that there are more disputes about

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 16:59 +0100, Paul Dann wrote: Are you talking about the willingness of the Linux community in general to go through tough technical transitions for the sake of progress? If so, I'd say that's one of the big things that makes Linux so successful, and Windows so slow to

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Paul Dann
Sometimes the most loving thing to do is let someone go through a short, sharp pain in order to avoid a long, drawn out one. Systemd is not evil. You may not like the idea of changing, but it probably will be the best thing for you to do to avoid more pain down the line. No rush, but I reckon

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 17:04 +0100, Paul Dann wrote: Is that what you're worried about? Yes ;D. I switched to Arch to get rid of fear. No I'm very scary. - Ralf

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 18:14 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 17:04 +0100, Paul Dann wrote: Is that what you're worried about? Yes ;D. I switched to Arch to get rid of fear. No I'm very scary. ^^^ Now - Ralf

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Paul Dann
If there's a developer anywhere that agrees with you, and I expect there will be at some point, udev will be forked, or something else will be developed to rival systemd. Right now, that's not even necessary. -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. Baho Utot

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 05:13:45PM +0100, Paul Dann wrote: Sometimes the most loving thing to do is let someone go through a short, sharp pain in order to avoid a long, drawn out one. Systemd is not evil. You may not like the idea of changing, but it probably will be the best thing for you

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Denis A . Altoé Falqueto
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia archli...@ishpeck.net wrote: I know that nobody in arch has declared the switch is inevitable but the way it looks, with upstream being eager enough to do so, it seems incredibly likely unless we train everyone to use DJB's

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 17:13 +0100, Paul Dann wrote: Sometimes the most loving thing to do is let someone go through a short, sharp pain in order to avoid a long, drawn out one. Systemd is not evil. You may not like the idea of changing, but it probably will be the best thing for you to do to

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Geoff
On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 13:24:49 -0300 Denis A. Altoé Falqueto denisfalqu...@gmail.com wrote: You should check arch-dev-public :) It's a funny thread https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2012-August/023389.html Mostly I just read arch-general and try to understand

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Brandon Watkins
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Geoff capstho...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 13:24:49 -0300 Denis A. Altoé Falqueto denisfalqu...@gmail.com wrote: You should check arch-dev-public :) It's a funny thread

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/14/2012 07:32 AM, Brandon Watkins wrote: For example I find systemd's .service files so much cleaner and easier to understand than initscripts, they are also portable and can be included in upstream packages. This part is true, and the fact

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Baho Utot
On 08/14/2012 06:35 PM, David Benfell wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/14/2012 07:32 AM, Brandon Watkins wrote: For example I find systemd's .service files so much cleaner and easier to understand than initscripts, they are also portable and can be included in

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/14/2012 03:46 PM, Baho Utot wrote: Can you do a mount and post the result here I am curious if you see the same thing as I do when systemd is running I have full systemd running under fedora 15/17 and it has some bizarre mount points. I

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:35 AM, David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org wrote: This part is true, and the fact that the system comes up *lightning fast* is a bonus. I'm not satisfied with the documentation, however, as it seems to be scattered across several man pages, the Arch wiki only

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Norbert Zeh
David Benfell [2012.08.14 1535 -0700]: What I think is unfortunate about the discussion of systemd here has been that it has been conflated with the discussion of pulseaudio. I think it is possible to like one and not the other. Indeed. The heated discussion about systemd actually had the

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Brandon Watkins
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Norbert Zeh n...@cs.dal.ca wrote: David Benfell [2012.08.14 1535 -0700]: What I think is unfortunate about the discussion of systemd here has been that it has been conflated with the discussion of pulseaudio. I think it is possible to like one and not the

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Baho Utot
On 08/14/2012 06:56 PM, David Benfell wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/14/2012 03:46 PM, Baho Utot wrote: Can you do a mount and post the result here I am curious if you see the same thing as I do when systemd is running I have full systemd running under fedora 15/17

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 1:11 AM, Baho Utot baho-u...@columbus.rr.com wrote: Have a look at this and notice the /dev/sda2 lines Never seen anything like this, so I'd be tempted to say this is not systemd related. findmnt is usually a better source of this info rather than mount. That said, we

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Baho Utot
On 08/14/2012 07:17 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote: On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 1:11 AM, Baho Utot baho-u...@columbus.rr.com wrote: Have a look at this and notice the /dev/sda2 lines Never seen anything like this, so I'd be tempted to say this is not systemd related. findmnt is usually a better source of

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Alexander
14.08.2012 17:13, Ralf Mardorf пишет: On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 15:05 +0200, Jelle van der Waa wrote: So better learn it now :p That might be true, since I don't think I have a choice, e.g. switching to BSD seems no alternative for my needs. I should install a second Arch with full Poettering

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/14/2012 04:17 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote: On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 1:11 AM, Baho Utot baho-u...@columbus.rr.com wrote: Have a look at this and notice the /dev/sda2 lines Never seen anything like this, so I'd be tempted to say this is not

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/14/2012 04:08 PM, Brandon Watkins wrote: On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Norbert Zeh n...@cs.dal.ca wrote: David Benfell [2012.08.14 1535 -0700]: What I think is unfortunate about the discussion of systemd here has been that it has been

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 1:55 AM, David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org wrote: Does systemd not use the standard mount program and follow /etc/fstab? It does. Though it does not use mount -a, but rather mounts each fs separately. It's the classic technical support problem with multiple

[arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-13 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
Hi, Another flame may start here, but I would like to present the following as a pure news, no opinions[1]. Of course, after reading all the discussions on the mailing lists, my feeling after reading the link? Mwuhahahaha. Important quotes from the link ( which I hope do not alter the

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-13 Thread Joakim Hernberg
On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:50:16 +0530 Jayesh Badwaik jayesh.badwai...@gmail.com wrote: (Yes, udev on non-systemd systems is in our eyes a dead end, in case you haven't noticed it yet. I am looking forward to the day when we can drop that support entirely.) Lennart in topform again...:( Well if

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-13 Thread Rodrigo Rivas
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Joakim Hernberg j...@alchemy.lu wrote: Too bad, we are either going to have to fork or look for an alternative to udev. When upstream udev fails to live up to some distributions (see, Ubuntu, for example) it *will* be forked. Hopefully, udev-systemd and

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-13 Thread Gour
On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 12:34:26 +0200 Joakim Hernberg j...@alchemy.lu wrote: Alternatively we will all be running systemd one day whether we want to or not :( I suspect that this has been the game plan all the time though. OK, flames away I guess :) Nobody to blame when we do not listen BSD

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-13 Thread Baho Utot
On 08/13/2012 07:50 AM, Gour wrote: On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 12:34:26 +0200 Joakim Hernberg j...@alchemy.lu wrote: Alternatively we will all be running systemd one day whether we want to or not :( I suspect that this has been the game plan all the time though. OK, flames away I guess :) Nobody

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-08-13 at 19:11 +0530, gt wrote: On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 03:50:16PM +0530, Jayesh Badwaik wrote: Hi, Another flame may start here, but I would like to present the following as a pure news, no opinions[1]. Of course, after reading all the discussions on the mailing

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