Re: Contributor agreements and copyright assignment (was Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems)

2012-12-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 07:03:23PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 12/05/2012 06:15 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: I understand that concern and recognize that this is a not-uncommon sentiment among Debian folks; this very closely parallels the question of whether one is willing to release

Re: Contributor agreements and copyright assignment (was Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems)

2012-12-05 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 12/05/2012 06:15 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: I understand that concern and recognize that this is a not-uncommon sentiment among Debian folks; this very closely parallels the question of whether one is willing to release software under a BSD license - or the MPL - vs. the GPL. But while some

Re: Contributor agreements and copyright assignment (was Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems)

2012-12-04 Thread Ian Jackson
Barry Warsaw writes (Re: Contributor agreements and copyright assignment (was Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems)): FTR: http://www.canonical.com/contributors That allows Canonical to make proprietary forks of the code (eg, to engage in the dual licensing business model). This is very

Re: Contributor agreements and copyright assignment (was Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems)

2012-12-04 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Dec 04, 2012, at 06:42 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: That allows Canonical to make proprietary forks of the code (eg, to engage in the dual licensing business model). This is very troublesome for me; it's too asymmetric a relationship. Not to diminish your own concerns, but it doesn't bother me.

Re: Contributor agreements and copyright assignment (was Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems)

2012-12-04 Thread Bjørn Mork
Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: Barry Warsaw writes (Re: Contributor agreements and copyright assignment (was Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems)): FTR: http://www.canonical.com/contributors That allows Canonical to make proprietary forks of the code (eg

Re: Contributor agreements and copyright assignment (was Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems)

2012-12-04 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 06:42:37PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: Barry Warsaw writes (Re: Contributor agreements and copyright assignment (was Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems)): FTR: http://www.canonical.com/contributors That allows Canonical to make proprietary forks of the code (eg

Re: Contributor agreements and copyright assignment (was Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems)

2012-12-03 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Dec 01, 2012, at 07:21 AM, Clint Byrum wrote: Just any FYI, Canonical no longer requires copyright assignment in their CLA. You are still giving Canonical an unlimited perpetual license on the code, but you retain your own copyrights. FTR: http://www.canonical.com/contributors with embedded

Re: Contributor agreements and copyright assignment (was Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems)

2012-12-01 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 09:14:20AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: Are you equating the FSF and the PSF with a private, for-profit company here? That seems to be stretching it a bit. Not really, IMO. Personally, I'm not comfortable signing off my copyright to the FSF, for the very same reason

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-12-01 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 03:58:05PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le jeudi 29 novembre 2012 à 15:24 +0100, Wouter Verhelst a écrit : Now if someone wants to fork the particular bits of upstream software so making use of a separate /usr is still possible, even if you think it's totally

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-12-01 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 08:51:47PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 03:28:40PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/homepage.jsp?code=PC68KCF the most recent processor you can find there was released in January 2012.

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-12-01 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 01 décembre 2012 à 09:52 +0100, Wouter Verhelst a écrit : On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 03:58:05PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le jeudi 29 novembre 2012 à 15:24 +0100, Wouter Verhelst a écrit : Now if someone wants to fork the particular bits of upstream software so making use of

Re: Contributor agreements and copyright assignment (was Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems)

2012-12-01 Thread Clint Byrum
On Dec 1, 2012, at 0:45, Wouter Verhelst wou...@debian.org wrote: On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 09:14:20AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: Are you equating the FSF and the PSF with a private, for-profit company here? That seems to be stretching it a bit. Not really, IMO. Personally, I'm not

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-12-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 03:40:41PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: the discussion that systemd is a bad design because it uses the same configuration file syntax as Windows ini files or XDG .desktop files, adding the statement that these are too difficult to parse. If you are refering

Contributor agreements and copyright assignment (was Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems)

2012-11-30 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Barry Warsaw On Nov 29, 2012, at 03:40 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Plus, you have to sign a contributor's agreement with Canonical which leaves a bad taste in my mouth. That shouldn't be the case with true free software, should it? In an ideal world maybe it shouldn't, but

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-11-30 Thread Salvo Tomaselli
Again, I am constantly asking here what these reasons might be and yet people always come with strawman arguments. You should bother to read the answers to your question then :-) I am using systemd on my laptop, i have a very default system configuration, (except that i compile my own

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-11-30 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 12:19:22PM +0100, Salvo Tomaselli wrote: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=693522 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=694048 I can't say anything about the fetchmail problem, but I just tried to reproduce the problem you explained in #693522

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-11-30 Thread Salvo Tomaselli
I can't say anything about the fetchmail problem, but I just tried to reproduce the problem you explained in #693522 and it works on my installation. So we will probably need more input to debug this. Please post on the bug what kind of test you want me to do. I was just pointing out how

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-11-30 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 12:19:22PM +0100, Salvo Tomaselli wrote: I am using systemd on my laptop, i have a very default system configuration, (except that i compile my own kernel to avoid initrd)… ^^ …if I, with a normal, standard desktop

Re: Contributor agreements and copyright assignment (was Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems)

2012-11-30 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Nov 30, 2012, at 09:14 AM, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: There's a significant difference whether your contractual counterpart is somebody who has the public good or profits in the pockets of its owners in mind. In the abstract, the non-profit or for-profit status of an organization is little

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems |Subject: Re: Really, about udev

2012-11-30 Thread Harald Jenny
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 06:12:14PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hi Harald, Hi Adrian On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 04:58:35PM +0100, Harald Jenny wrote: I have tried systemd but as it does not support the Debian extensions to cryptsetup (namely the crypttab keyscript parameter) it

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-11-30 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Jon Dowland j...@debian.org [121130 16:06]: I do not agree that reconfiguring your machine to avoid an initrd is a normal standard desktop configuration. There's also several other things about your setup which I would argue are not standard (see below) Will Debian come by default with

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-11-30 Thread Philipp Kern
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 07:23:12PM +0100, Bernhard R. Link wrote: * Jon Dowland j...@debian.org [121130 16:06]: I do not agree that reconfiguring your machine to avoid an initrd is a normal standard desktop configuration. There's also several other things about your setup which I would

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-11-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 07:23:12PM +0100, Bernhard R. Link wrote: * Jon Dowland j...@debian.org [121130 16:06]: I do not agree that reconfiguring your machine to avoid an initrd is a normal standard desktop configuration. There's also several other things about your setup which I would

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-11-30 Thread Salvo Tomaselli
I do not agree that reconfiguring your machine to avoid an initrd is a normal standard desktop configuration. There's also several other things about your setup which I would argue are not standard (see below) Well no but are you trying to argue that my problems are due to my kernel

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-11-29 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 04:03:21PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 10:52:58PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 11/25/2012 01:30 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Why? Why would you want to rip such low-level stuff apart? Well, isn't it the opposite

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-11-29 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 06:49:45PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 01:08:31AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: Now, I may add, I have no will to discuss it with you anyway, after reading you impose on my your partitioning scheme, and would like me to use my

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-11-29 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 08:02:20PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 02:12:23AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: P.S: By the way, there's still an ongoing m68k porting effort. Please respect this work as well. I've been a vivid Amiga user since 1991* and I still

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-11-29 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 03:21:02PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: Well, systemd and udev are developed by the same developers. Both daemons interact very closely and integration of the sources was the natural consequence. udev and pulseaudio are developed by the same developers. Both

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems (was: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev)

2012-11-29 Thread Wookey
+++ John Paul Adrian Glaubitz [2012-11-24 18:30 +0100]: On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 06:03:02PM +0100, Toni Mueller wrote: On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 05:15:25PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: If both Ubuntu and Gentoo would just go with the rest of the community and accept systemd,

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-11-29 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 29 novembre 2012 à 15:24 +0100, Wouter Verhelst a écrit : Now if someone wants to fork the particular bits of upstream software so making use of a separate /usr is still possible, even if you think it's totally useless, are you going to stop them. Wouter, I think higher of you than

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems |Subject: Re: Really, about udev

2012-11-29 Thread Harald Jenny
Dear Adrian On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 03:40:41PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Again, I am constantly asking here what these reasons might be and yet people always come with strawman arguments. I mean, seriously we had the discussion that systemd is a bad design because it uses the

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-11-29 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 11/29/2012 10:58 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote: There are valid arguments for forking udev, but /usr support is not one of them; we will just move /usr mounting to the initrd if it cannot be mounted later. On the Debian side of things, you are probably right, since using an initrd is ok in

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems |Subject: Re: Really, about udev

2012-11-29 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Harald, On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 04:58:35PM +0100, Harald Jenny wrote: I have tried systemd but as it does not support the Debian extensions to cryptsetup (namely the crypttab keyscript parameter) it is not a valuable alternative for me - sysvinit and upstart btw do support them, I did not

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-11-29 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 12:55:13AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: However, you are running Gentoo and rebuild your kernel, why would you bother with such thing as kernel modules and initrd? The thing is, many (most? all?) Gentoo user, as far as I understand (I'm not a Gentoo user), do not use

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-11-29 Thread Игорь Пашев
2012/11/29 Wouter Verhelst wou...@debian.org: glibc and the kernel is developed by the same group of companies. Both interact very closely and integration of the sources was the natural consequence. Please, *DONT* :-) I've tired of this crap on illumos -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-11-29 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Nov 29, 2012, at 03:40 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Plus, you have to sign a contributor's agreement with Canonical which leaves a bad taste in my mouth. That shouldn't be the case with true free software, should it? In an ideal world maybe it shouldn't, but in truth it is for both

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-11-29 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 11/30/2012 01:18 AM, Jon Dowland wrote: On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 12:55:13AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: However, you are running Gentoo and rebuild your kernel, why would you bother with such thing as kernel modules and initrd? The thing is, many (most? all?) Gentoo user, as far as I

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-11-29 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 03:28:40PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/homepage.jsp?code=PC68KCF the most recent processor you can find there was released in January 2012. Yeah, someone else posted this information already. How much are these instruction

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-11-29 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 03:40:47AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: We can ignore what happens to other downstreams of udev, however I don't think that's a good idea to do so. Why bother other downstreams if they don't complain? I find it rather intrusive to post on the lists of other downstreams,

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-11-29 Thread Roger Leigh
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 03:40:41PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 03:21:02PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: Well, systemd and udev are developed by the same developers. Both daemons interact very closely and integration of the sources was the natural

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-11-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 11:51:12PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 03:40:41PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 03:21:02PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: Well, systemd and udev are developed by the same developers. Both daemons interact

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-11-28 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 11/28/2012 02:38 PM, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: There is nothing in systemd's or udev's architecture that requires having /usr mounted early. That's not truth anymore, since AFAIK rules of udev moved to /usr. However, it's the opinion of the systemd primary upstream authors that having /usr

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-11-28 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Nov 28, 2012, at 12:04 PM, Thomas Goirand z...@debian.org wrote: However, it's the opinion of the systemd primary upstream authors that having /usr on a separate fs is a bad idea since there are tools that (primarily) some udev rules use, which live on /usr. Yeah, we all so his marvelous

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-11-28 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 11/28/2012 07:17 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On Nov 28, 2012, at 12:04 PM, Thomas Goirand z...@debian.org wrote: However, it's the opinion of the systemd primary upstream authors that having /usr on a separate fs is a bad idea since there are tools that (primarily) some udev rules

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-11-28 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 11:28:57PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: It is truth that there's a general movement inside RedHat to fuck-up everything. You are right, I should have mention that more clearly : it's not only about Lennart and systemd guys, and I should take the blame for not

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-11-28 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 11/28/2012 11:55 PM, Neil McGovern wrote: On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 11:28:57PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: It is truth that there's a general movement inside RedHat to fuck-up everything. You are right, I should have mention that more clearly : it's not only about Lennart and systemd guys,

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-11-28 Thread Jon Dowland
I had a half-drafted message to the same effect, but deleted it earlier. Thanks Neil for speaking up. I have to say Thomas, many recent messages from you across many threads, mostly on -devel but also elsewhere, have seemed to have very little in the way of polite, constructive content, advancing

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-11-28 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 12:15:55AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: I actually don't really take it very seriously, it just helps to waiting while things are building ... :) I actually agree it's pointless (because it's very unlikely that there will be any outcome), but I also find it fun. I'm

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-11-28 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 11/29/2012 01:33 AM, Neil McGovern wrote: On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 12:15:55AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: I actually don't really take it very seriously, it just helps to waiting while things are building ... :) I actually agree it's pointless (because it's very unlikely that there will be

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-11-27 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 03:42:19PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: The point is, systemd and udev have recently been patched by upstream so that things are going *even more* on the direction of having stuff stored in /usr. Which is still not really a problem when tons of other

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-11-27 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Steve Langasek On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 03:42:19PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: The point is, systemd and udev have recently been patched by upstream so that things are going *even more* on the direction of having stuff stored in /usr. Which is still not really a

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-11-25 Thread Thomas Goirand
Hi, First, I'm registered to the list. So please *do not* Cc: me. On 11/25/2012 03:35 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 12:52:47PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 11/25/2012 12:15 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: They're constantly claiming, for example, that

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-11-25 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 10:16:27PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: Yes, lots of udev stuff are moving to /usr, and this is a fact. Yes, lots of things are annoying in the merge for someone who wishes to use udev alone, and not systemd. That is a fact as well. There is tons of stuff that

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-11-25 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 11/25/2012 01:30 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Why? Why would you want to rip such low-level stuff apart? Well, isn't it the opposite thing that is happening? Such low-level stuff are being merged (with systemd+udev merge), they were separated projects before. So, I'd rather ask you:

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-11-25 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 10:52:58PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 11/25/2012 01:30 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Why? Why would you want to rip such low-level stuff apart? Well, isn't it the opposite thing that is happening? Such low-level stuff are being merged (with systemd+udev

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-11-25 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 11/25/2012 02:19 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: I really wish people would stop having this debate. It is completely pointless for us to argue here over whether or not the fork will be successful. The outcome of that argument is completely irrelevant to the world: even if we all decide that the

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-11-25 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 11/25/2012 10:42 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Besides, can you elaborate what is so important in having /usr separate? I see that it made sense back on the old Unix workstations where you could split partitions across different disks, but I don't see the point nowadays where a cheap

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-11-25 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sun, 25 Nov 2012, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 11/25/2012 02:19 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: I really wish people would stop having this debate. It is completely pointless for us to argue here over whether or not the fork will be successful. The outcome of that argument is completely irrelevant to

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-11-25 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 01:08:31AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: So please just keep in mind that this is annoying some others, and if you don't feel annoyed, just live with the fact you aren't alone in this world, and that some of us prefer a separated /usr partition. Based on which

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-11-25 Thread brian m. carlson
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 06:49:45PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 01:08:31AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: So please just keep in mind that this is annoying some others, and if you don't feel annoyed, just live with the fact you aren't alone in this world,

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-11-25 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 11/26/2012 01:49 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Debian dropped support for m68k and Alpha and deprived users of their freedom to run Debian on these platforms with the latest supported software. But these architectures weren't dropped because they wanted to take away people's freedoms

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-11-25 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 02:12:23AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: P.S: By the way, there's still an ongoing m68k porting effort. Please respect this work as well. I've been a vivid Amiga user since 1991* and I still love these machines and I am supporting the efforts to get Debian back onto

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-11-25 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 06:06:02PM +, brian m. carlson wrote: some of us prefer a separated /usr partition. I want to have a separate /usr, because I can enabling a separate /usr means extra work. using a separate /usr was controversial partitioned their systems with a separate /usr

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems (was: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev)

2012-11-24 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 02:09:51AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 11/14/2012 11:12 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: The full thread is here: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/2262 This thread was originally about udev, yet everyone is starting again the systemd / upstart /

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems (was: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev)

2012-11-24 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 04:58:04PM +0100, Toni Mueller wrote: This thread was originally about udev, yet everyone is starting again the systemd / upstart / sysv-rc war. I think we can agree that we don't about I, for one, wholeheartedly welcome the fork, as I hope that this will help

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems (was: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev)

2012-11-24 Thread Toni Mueller
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 05:15:25PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: If both Ubuntu and Gentoo would just go with the rest of the community and accept systemd, we wouldn't have to bother whether udev runs without systemd or not. I would highly prefer a system where I can take small

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems (was: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev)

2012-11-24 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 06:03:02PM +0100, Toni Mueller wrote: On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 05:15:25PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: If both Ubuntu and Gentoo would just go with the rest of the community and accept systemd, we wouldn't have to bother whether udev runs without systemd

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-11-24 Thread Russ Allbery
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de writes: On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 04:58:04PM +0100, Toni Mueller wrote: I, for one, wholeheartedly welcome the fork, as I hope that this will help getting back some of the modularity in Linux that was there, once upon a time, and which

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems (was: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev)

2012-11-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
Adrian wrote: If both Ubuntu and Gentoo would just go with the rest of the community and accept systemd, we wouldn't have to bother whether udev runs without systemd or not. Please drop the systemd propaganda crap. We get enough of that from Lennart already. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems (was: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev)

2012-11-24 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 24 novembre 2012 à 18:25 +, Steve McIntyre a écrit : Please drop the systemd propaganda crap. We get enough of that from Lennart already. OTOH we also get quite enough of FUD from people who don’t know what systemd is but don’t want us to use it. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-11-24 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 11/25/2012 12:15 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: They're constantly claiming, for example, that udev and systemd break a separate /usr partition which is simply not true. I believe you've been reading too much L. Poettring. Yes, lots of udev stuff are moving to /usr, and this is a fact.

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-11-24 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 12:52:47PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 11/25/2012 12:15 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: They're constantly claiming, for example, that udev and systemd break a separate /usr partition which is simply not true. I believe you've been reading too much L.

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-11-24 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 08:35:22AM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Sorry, but I wouldn't touch code with a ten-feet pole who from someone is so naive claiming that he knows more about writing an open source BIOS than the people at Coreboot who have been doing that since 1999. I started

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems (was: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev)

2012-11-15 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 11/14/2012 11:12 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: Hi, I think this is an interesting read: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/2262 The full thread is here: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/2262 As Gentoo guys and some major kernel people are protesting about

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-11-15 Thread Russ Allbery
Thomas Goirand z...@debian.org writes: This thread was originally about udev, yet everyone is starting again the systemd / upstart / sysv-rc war. I think we can agree that we don't about the init system, and it wasn't my intention to restart this debate. However, how should Debian see this