Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-13 Thread Clint Byrum
Excerpts from Chow Loong Jin's message of 2013-06-12 11:06:54 -0700: On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 09:44:16AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 04:40:22PM +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: Bitrot doesn't happen immediately, and even when it does happen, it will take time before

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-12 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 09 Jun 2013 01:04:38 +0200, Michael Stapelberg stapelb...@debian.org wrote: since some people might not read planet debian, here is a link to my first blog post in a series of posts dealing with the results of the Debian systemd survey:

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-12 Thread Ondřej Surý
Hi Michael, On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Michael Stapelberg stapelb...@debian.orgwrote: Hi Ondřej, Ondřej Surý ond...@sury.org writes: and if I match this with the table at: http://people.debian.org/~stapelberg/docs/systemd-dependencies.html I get the result that you will _not_

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-12 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 09:49:03AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: [...] |While it is sad that those machines cannot profit from systemd, switching |to systemd as a default has no downside either: Debian continues to |support sysvinit for quite some time, so these machines will continue |to work

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-12 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
Le 12/06/2013 09:49, Marc Haber a écrit : On Sun, 09 Jun 2013 01:04:38 +0200, Michael Stapelberg stapelb...@debian.org wrote: since some people might not read planet debian, here is a link to my first blog post in a series of posts dealing with the results of the Debian systemd survey:

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-12 Thread Michael Stapelberg
Hi Ondřej, Ondřej Surý ond...@sury.org writes: I still think you should also update the table with information if the library is actually used in PID 1 (or in forked process) as hmh suggested: It would be best to enhance http://people.debian.org/~stapelberg/docs/systemd-dependencies.html

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-12 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 04:40:22PM +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: Bitrot doesn't happen immediately, and even when it does happen, it will take time before its rate reaches an unmanageable state. Plenty of time to test a solution in the meantime I say. Basic autogeneration of sysvinit and

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-12 Thread Uoti Urpala
Michael Stapelberg wrote: Ondřej Surý ond...@sury.org writes: I still think you should also update the table with information if the library is actually used in PID 1 (or in forked process) as hmh suggested: It would be best to enhance

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-12 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 09:44:16AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 04:40:22PM +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: Bitrot doesn't happen immediately, and even when it does happen, it will take time before its rate reaches an unmanageable state. Plenty of time to test a

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-12 Thread Ondřej Surý
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 7:34 PM, Uoti Urpala uoti.urp...@pp1.inet.fiwrote: Michael Stapelberg wrote: Ondřej Surý ond...@sury.org writes: I still think you should also update the table with information if the library is actually used in PID 1 (or in forked process) as hmh suggested:

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-11 Thread Ondřej Surý
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 7:36 AM, Tollef Fog Heen tfh...@err.no wrote: ]] Thomas Goirand If what you say above is right (I have no opinion on that yet, I just trust what you say), then this renders the systemd is modular argument completely useless, because practically, the user wont be

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-11 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Ondřej Surý Tollef, it is still unclear to me as well. Ok, I'll try to be clearer then. You said: I'd like to align with upstream here (and in general): If upstream says a component is optional, that's a configuration I'd in general want to support. If upstream says a component

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-11 Thread Michael Stapelberg
Hi Ondřej, Ondřej Surý ond...@sury.org writes: and if I match this with the table at: http://people.debian.org/~stapelberg/docs/systemd-dependencies.html I get the result that you will _not_ compile systemd with: libselinux.so libpam.so libwrap.so libaudit.so libkmod.so because they

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-10 Thread Ondřej Surý
On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Vincent Bernat ber...@debian.org wrote: ❦ 9 juin 2013 11:45 CEST, Bjørn Mork bj...@mork.no : You do of course not have to agree. This is my personal opinion only. But I believe it is useful to read Jamie Zawinski's view on screensavers and toolkit

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-10 Thread Vincent Bernat
Le 2013-06-10 10:18, Ondřej Surý a écrit : systemd does not rely on a toolkit. So, most of the arguments listed by Jamie do not hold. I suppose that you are mostly worried by libdbus since other libraries are already used in other critical daemons. Personally I would be more worried about

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-10 Thread Ondřej Surý
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Vincent Bernat ber...@luffy.cx wrote: Le 2013-06-10 10:18, Ondřej Surý a écrit : systemd does not rely on a toolkit. So, most of the arguments listed by Jamie do not hold. I suppose that you are mostly worried by libdbus since other libraries are already

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-10 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 10 Jun 2013, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 06/10/2013 03:21 AM, Michael Stapelberg wrote: Thomas Goirand z...@debian.org writes: In this blog post, you tell that it's possible not to use all the components of systemd. Then, the immediate question that pops to my mind: what are *your*

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-10 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 06/11/2013 02:23 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Mon, 10 Jun 2013, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 06/10/2013 03:21 AM, Michael Stapelberg wrote: Thomas Goirand z...@debian.org writes: In this blog post, you tell that it's possible not to use all the components of systemd. Then, the

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-10 Thread Uoti Urpala
Thomas Goirand wrote: On 06/11/2013 02:23 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Mon, 10 Jun 2013, Thomas Goirand wrote: Then which component would you install, and activate by default? Which component will you make only installable if the user decides to do it actively (for example

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-10 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Thomas Goirand If what you say above is right (I have no opinion on that yet, I just trust what you say), then this renders the systemd is modular argument completely useless, because practically, the user wont be able to choose. Which is why I was asking specifically Michael about this,

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-09 Thread Bjørn Mork
Michael Stapelberg stapelb...@debian.org writes: since some people might not read planet debian, here is a link to my first blog post in a series of posts dealing with the results of the Debian systemd survey: http://people.debian.org/~stapelberg/2013/06/09/systemd-bloat.html I was hoping

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-09 Thread Michael Stapelberg
Hi Bjørn, Thanks for your well-put mail. As far as I understand it, your concern is that libraries might exit() (either due to actually calling exit() or due to having a bug) and therefore take pid 1 with them. I am sure that the systemd developers are very aware of this fact. They even

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-09 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 9 juin 2013 11:45 CEST, Bjørn Mork bj...@mork.no : You do of course not have to agree. This is my personal opinion only. But I believe it is useful to read Jamie Zawinski's view on screensavers and toolkit library dependencies, and try to figure out how that can be relevant to systemd

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-09 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 06/09/2013 07:04 AM, Michael Stapelberg wrote: Hi, since some people might not read planet debian, here is a link to my first blog post in a series of posts dealing with the results of the Debian systemd survey: http://people.debian.org/~stapelberg/2013/06/09/systemd-bloat.html In

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-09 Thread Michael Stapelberg
Hi Thomas, Thomas Goirand z...@debian.org writes: In this blog post, you tell that it's possible not to use all the components of systemd. Then, the immediate question that pops to my mind: what are *your* intentions then, in Debian (or, said in another way, what would you like to do if you

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-09 Thread Robert Collins
On 10 June 2013 07:21, Michael Stapelberg stapelb...@debian.org wrote: Hi Thomas, Thomas Goirand z...@debian.org writes: In this blog post, you tell that it's possible not to use all the components of systemd. Then, the immediate question that pops to my mind: what are *your* intentions

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-09 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Robert Collins On 10 June 2013 07:21, Michael Stapelberg stapelb...@debian.org wrote: Hi Thomas, Thomas Goirand z...@debian.org writes: In this blog post, you tell that it's possible not to use all the components of systemd. Then, the immediate question that pops to my mind: what

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-09 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 06/10/2013 03:21 AM, Michael Stapelberg wrote: Hi Thomas, Thomas Goirand z...@debian.org writes: In this blog post, you tell that it's possible not to use all the components of systemd. Then, the immediate question that pops to my mind: what are *your* intentions then, in Debian (or,

Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-08 Thread Michael Stapelberg
Hi, since some people might not read planet debian, here is a link to my first blog post in a series of posts dealing with the results of the Debian systemd survey: http://people.debian.org/~stapelberg/2013/06/09/systemd-bloat.html -- Best regards, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-08 Thread Robert Collins
Please note that I am not advocating for or against systemd, but... With regards complexity and whether it is intrinsic or not, Rich Hickey puts forward a more rigorous definition of complexity, and how it is sometimes in tension with easiness...