Re: Default desktop for jessie Was: Re: Debian/Wheezy general rant ...

2013-06-06 Thread Ron Scott-Adams
I've assisted a number of people with various distributions, and I will tell you right now that there is only one new user-friendly way to do it: provide a DE out of the box, and choose it for them. People will generally not research and do not know which is "better". They are willing to try som

Re: Default desktop for jessie Was: Re: Debian/Wheezy general rant ...

2013-06-06 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 09:13:50PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 08:11:49PM +0200, Bjoern Meier wrote: > [...] > > Ok, an example. my Girlfriend was really pissed of Win8. She hate it > > (for good reasons). She came to me and asked:"Can you show me Linux > > and how it wor

Re: Default desktop for jessie Was: Re: Debian/Wheezy general rant ...

2013-06-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 08:11:49PM +0200, Bjoern Meier wrote: [...] > Ok, an example. my Girlfriend was really pissed of Win8. She hate it > (for good reasons). She came to me and asked:"Can you show me Linux > and how it works?". I sweat blood, but I took my honor. > After a successful install sh

Re: Default desktop for jessie Was: Re: Debian/Wheezy general rant ...

2013-06-06 Thread Bjoern Meier
hi, 2013/6/6 Russ Allbery : > Bjoern Meier writes: > >> Freedom is not only that you have a choice, you have to know what your >> decision and the consequences will be. Unmanageable? Really? > >> I done LFS a weeks ago, was that unmanageable? No. It's not. Yeah Debian >> is not LFS, but I rember

Re: Default desktop for jessie Was: Re: Debian/Wheezy general rant ...

2013-06-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Bjoern Meier writes: > Freedom is not only that you have a choice, you have to know what your > decision and the consequences will be. Unmanageable? Really? > I done LFS a weeks ago, was that unmanageable? No. It's not. Yeah Debian > is not LFS, but I rember the install-process on potato. That

Re: Default desktop for jessie Was: Re: Debian/Wheezy general rant ...

2013-06-06 Thread Bjoern Meier
hi, 2013/6/6 Ben Hutchings : > On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 08:34:35AM +0200, Bjoern Meier wrote: >> 0hi, >> >> 2013/6/6 Chow Loong Jin : >> > On 06/06/2013 06:54, Jeremy Stanley wrote: >> >> On 2013-06-05 15:02:35 -0700 (-0700), Russ Allbery wrote: >> >> [...] >> >>> Did I miss anything? >> >> >> >> I

Re: Default desktop for jessie Was: Re: Debian/Wheezy general rant ...

2013-06-06 Thread Holger Levsen
On Donnerstag, 6. Juni 2013, Russ Allbery wrote: > udev sucks! Debian should hire a developer to replace all uses of CDBS > with dh! Perl should be replaced with Python in essential! All packages > need to switch to 3.0 (quilt)! Native packages should be banned! No one > should ever be allowed

Re: Default desktop for jessie Was: Re: Debian/Wheezy general rant ...

2013-06-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 08:34:35AM +0200, Bjoern Meier wrote: > 0hi, > > 2013/6/6 Chow Loong Jin : > > On 06/06/2013 06:54, Jeremy Stanley wrote: > >> On 2013-06-05 15:02:35 -0700 (-0700), Russ Allbery wrote: > >> [...] > >>> Did I miss anything? > >> > >> I don't understand at all how you could h

Re: Default desktop for jessie Was: Re: Debian/Wheezy general rant ...

2013-06-05 Thread Bjoern Meier
0hi, 2013/6/6 Chow Loong Jin : > On 06/06/2013 06:54, Jeremy Stanley wrote: >> On 2013-06-05 15:02:35 -0700 (-0700), Russ Allbery wrote: >> [...] >>> Did I miss anything? >> >> I don't understand at all how you could have missed such a prime >> opportunity to rile up the vi vs. emacs debate while

Re: Default desktop for jessie Was: Re: Debian/Wheezy general rant ...

2013-06-05 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 06/06/2013 06:54, Jeremy Stanley wrote: > On 2013-06-05 15:02:35 -0700 (-0700), Russ Allbery wrote: > [...] >> Did I miss anything? > > I don't understand at all how you could have missed such a prime > opportunity to rile up the vi vs. emacs debate while you were at > it... or am I showing my

Re: Default desktop for jessie Was: Re: Debian/Wheezy general rant ...

2013-06-05 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org): > udev sucks! Debian should hire a developer to replace all uses of CDBS > with dh! Perl should be replaced with Python in essential! All packages > need to switch to 3.0 (quilt)! Native packages should be banned! No one > should ever be allowed to NMU

Re: Default desktop for jessie Was: Re: Debian/Wheezy general rant ...

2013-06-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Paul Wise writes: > On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 5:56 AM, Svante Signell wrote: >> I'm open to suggestions, what do you need help with? > There is never any shortage of RC bugs: > http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ > http://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi Help porting Apache modules to Apache 2.4 woul

Re: Default desktop for jessie Was: Re: Debian/Wheezy general rant ...

2013-06-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 5:56 AM, Svante Signell wrote: > I'm open to suggestions, what do you need help with? There is never any shortage of RC bugs: http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ http://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Default desktop for jessie Was: Re: Debian/Wheezy general rant ...

2013-06-05 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 03:02:35PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Did I miss anything? We should seriously start looking at replacing gcc with clang in build-essential in case we run out of flamewars. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u

Re: Default desktop for jessie Was: Re: Debian/Wheezy general rant ...

2013-06-05 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Mittwoch, den 05.06.2013, 15:02 -0700 schrieb Russ Allbery: > Svante Signell writes: > > > Not everybody agrees to that, there is a split opinion about this. > > Please lift this discussion a little higher: Which would be the default > > desktop for jessie? > > Because we weren't having enoug

Re: Default desktop for jessie Was: Re: Debian/Wheezy general rant ...

2013-06-05 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2013-06-05 15:02:35 -0700 (-0700), Russ Allbery wrote: [...] > Did I miss anything? I don't understand at all how you could have missed such a prime opportunity to rile up the vi vs. emacs debate while you were at it... or am I showing my age? -- { PGP( 48F9961143495829 ); FINGER( fu...@cthulh

Re: Default desktop for jessie Was: Re: Debian/Wheezy general rant ...

2013-06-05 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 5 June 2013 23:42, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Russ Allbery , 2013-06-05, 15:02: > >> udev sucks! Debian should hire a developer to replace all uses of CDBS >> with dh! Perl should be replaced with Python in essential! All packages >> need to switch to 3.0 (quilt)! Native packages should be banne

Re: Default desktop for jessie Was: Re: Debian/Wheezy general rant ...

2013-06-05 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Russ Allbery , 2013-06-05, 15:02: udev sucks! Debian should hire a developer to replace all uses of CDBS with dh! Perl should be replaced with Python in essential! All packages need to switch to 3.0 (quilt)! Native packages should be banned! No one should ever be allowed to NMU anything

Re: Default desktop for jessie Was: Re: Debian/Wheezy general rant ...

2013-06-05 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 5 June 2013 23:02, Russ Allbery wrote: > Svante Signell writes: > >> Not everybody agrees to that, there is a split opinion about this. >> Please lift this discussion a little higher: Which would be the default >> desktop for jessie? > > Because we weren't having enough fun with systemd vs. up

Re: Default desktop for jessie Was: Re: Debian/Wheezy general rant ...

2013-06-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Svante Signell writes: > On Wed, 2013-06-05 at 15:02 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> No one should ever be allowed to NMU anything ever if the maintainer >> says no! > Sorry, I decided not to answer, but I cannot resist this one. It seems > overly restrictive. Are you serious, what would be the pu

Re: Default desktop for jessie Was: Re: Debian/Wheezy general rant ...

2013-06-05 Thread Svante Signell
On Wed, 2013-06-05 at 15:02 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Svante Signell writes: > No one > should ever be allowed to NMU anything ever if the maintainer says no! Sorry, I decided not to answer, but I cannot resist this one. It seems overly restrictive. Are you serious, what would be the purpose

Re: Default desktop for jessie Was: Re: Debian/Wheezy general rant ...

2013-06-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Svante Signell writes: > Not everybody agrees to that, there is a split opinion about this. > Please lift this discussion a little higher: Which would be the default > desktop for jessie? Because we weren't having enough fun with systemd vs. upstart and the MTA discussion. :) Maybe if we can s

Re: Default desktop for jessie Was: Re: Debian/Wheezy general rant ...

2013-06-05 Thread Svante Signell
On Wed, 2013-06-05 at 23:52 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 05.06.2013 23:47, schrieb Svante Signell: > > On Wed, 2013-06-05 at 21:53 +0200, Anton Gladky wrote: > >> Hi, ... > Svante, it's nice that you have an opinion on each and everything. But > maybe it would be more productive to talk less an

Re: Default desktop for jessie Was: Re: Debian/Wheezy general rant ...

2013-06-05 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 05.06.2013 23:47, schrieb Svante Signell: > On Wed, 2013-06-05 at 21:53 +0200, Anton Gladky wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On 06/05/2013 09:15 PM, Bjoern Meier wrote: >>> Gnome3 was controverse discussed in many media, so >>> "Take it or make your move and change it?" It is that hard, to build a >>> dialog

Default desktop for jessie Was: Re: Debian/Wheezy general rant ...

2013-06-05 Thread Svante Signell
On Wed, 2013-06-05 at 21:53 +0200, Anton Gladky wrote: > Hi, > > On 06/05/2013 09:15 PM, Bjoern Meier wrote: > > Gnome3 was controverse discussed in many media, so > > "Take it or make your move and change it?" It is that hard, to build a > > dialog and ask for a desktop? You have the choice, but