Re: Avoiding SystemD isn't hard

2014-10-22 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 19:09:39 -0400 Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net wrote: Brian wrote: On Tue 21 Oct 2014 at 15:01:18 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 17:19:08 +0200 Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote: A blog post explaining why it isn't mandatory, the utter

Re: Avoiding SystemD isn't hard

2014-10-22 Thread Jape Person
On 10/21/2014 09:22 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 21 Oct 2014, Miles Fidelman wrote: which is immediately followed by completely inaccurate information, including: -- With jessie, it will become /easier/ to choose the init system, because *neither init system is

Re: Avoiding SystemD isn't hard

2014-10-22 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 22. Oktober 2014, 07:04:12 schrieb Jape Person: On 10/21/2014 09:22 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 21 Oct 2014, Miles Fidelman wrote: which is immediately followed by completely inaccurate information, including: -- With jessie, it will

Re: Avoiding SystemD isn't hard

2014-10-22 Thread Jape Person
On 10/22/2014 07:41 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Mittwoch, 22. Oktober 2014, 07:04:12 schrieb Jape Person: On 10/21/2014 09:22 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 21 Oct 2014, Miles Fidelman wrote: which is immediately followed by completely inaccurate information,

Re: Avoiding SystemD isn't hard

2014-10-22 Thread Brian
On Wed 22 Oct 2014 at 02:00:34 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 19:09:39 -0400 Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net wrote: Brian wrote: On Tue 21 Oct 2014 at 15:01:18 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 17:19:08 +0200 Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com

Re: Avoiding SystemD isn't hard

2014-10-22 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 21 Oct 2014, Miles Fidelman wrote: Don Armstrong wrote: Furthermore, the effect of this patch is trivially obtained by using a late_command to remove systemd-sysv and install sysvinit-core. except for the various reported issues with all the things aptitude wants to remove when

Re: Avoiding SystemD isn't hard

2014-10-22 Thread Doug
On 10/22/2014 07:04 AM, Jape Person wrote: /snip/ I haven't paid a lot of attention to threads concerning systemd because of the (unfortunate, though occasionally entertaining) hyperbole and innuendo employed by so many. . . .

Re: Avoiding SystemD isn't hard

2014-10-22 Thread Jape Person
On 10/22/2014 02:42 PM, Doug wrote: On 10/22/2014 07:04 AM, Jape Person wrote: /snip/ I haven't paid a lot of attention to threads concerning systemd because of the (unfortunate, though occasionally entertaining) hyperbole and innuendo employed by so many. . . .

Avoiding SystemD isn't hard

2014-10-21 Thread Liam Proven
A blog post explaining why it isn't mandatory, the utter futility of the fork and more besides, clearly and simply. http://www.vitavonni.de/blog/201410/2014102101-avoiding-systemd.html -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk •

Re: Avoiding SystemD isn't hard

2014-10-21 Thread Miles Fidelman
Liam Proven wrote: A blog post explaining why it isn't mandatory, the utter futility of the fork and more besides, clearly and simply. http://www.vitavonni.de/blog/201410/2014102101-avoiding-systemd.html Would be nicer if it was accurate. For example, it talks about version pinning as a way

Re: Avoiding SystemD isn't hard

2014-10-21 Thread Liam Proven
On 21 October 2014 17:40, Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net wrote: Liam Proven wrote: A blog post explaining why it isn't mandatory, the utter futility of the fork and more besides, clearly and simply. http://www.vitavonni.de/blog/201410/2014102101-avoiding-systemd.html Would be

Re: Avoiding SystemD isn't hard

2014-10-21 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/21/2014 11:19 AM, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote: A blog post explaining why it isn't mandatory, the utter futility of the fork and more besides, clearly and simply. http://www.vitavonni.de/blog/201410/2014102101-avoiding-systemd.html Doesn't address - and nothing can

Re: Avoiding SystemD isn't hard

2014-10-21 Thread Miles Fidelman
is Avoiding systemd isn't hard - which is immediately followed by completely inaccurate information, including: -- With jessie, it will become /easier/ to choose the init system, because *neither init system is essential now*. Instead, there is an essential meta-package init, which requires

Re: Avoiding SystemD isn't hard

2014-10-21 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 21 Oct 2014, Miles Fidelman wrote: which is immediately followed by completely inaccurate information, including: -- With jessie, it will become /easier/ to choose the init system, because *neither init system is essential now*. Instead, there is an essential meta-package init,

Re: Avoiding SystemD isn't hard

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
alliance with. But putting the author's agenda aside for a moment, he pins his Avoiding systemd isn't difficult mantra on pinning. Umm, what happens three years from now if Ian Jackson's GR votes against choice? Oops! And once again, I thank Ian Jackson for doing the right thing, in spite

Re: Avoiding SystemD isn't hard

2014-10-21 Thread tor...@riseup.net
Liam Proven: A blog post explaining why it isn't mandatory, the utter futility of the fork and more besides, clearly and simply. http://www.vitavonni.de/blog/201410/2014102101-avoiding-systemd.html At least in Sid libsystemd0 is a dependency of the essential package bsdutils

Re: Avoiding SystemD isn't hard

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 23:17:56 +0200 tor...@riseup.net tor...@riseup.net wrote: If one doesn't want systemd/libsystemd0, then Debian is not a good choice (having to tinker all the time one can just as well run one of the KISS distros). imho, of course. Debian *was* a KISS distro. That's

Re: Avoiding SystemD isn't hard

2014-10-21 Thread Brian
On Tue 21 Oct 2014 at 15:01:18 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 17:19:08 +0200 Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote: A blog post explaining why it isn't mandatory, the utter futility of the fork and more besides, clearly and simply.

Re: Avoiding SystemD isn't hard

2014-10-21 Thread Miles Fidelman
Brian wrote: On Tue 21 Oct 2014 at 15:01:18 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 17:19:08 +0200 Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote: A blog post explaining why it isn't mandatory, the utter futility of the fork and more besides, clearly and simply.

Re: Avoiding SystemD isn't hard

2014-10-21 Thread Miles Fidelman
Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 21 Oct 2014, Miles Fidelman wrote: which is immediately followed by completely inaccurate information, including: -- With jessie, it will become /easier/ to choose the init system, because *neither init system is essential now*. Instead, there is an essential

Re: Avoiding SystemD isn't hard

2014-10-21 Thread Martinx - ジェームズ
I agree that a fork is too radical, hard to maintain without money and blah blah blah... We just need uselessd + new udev to kick systemd entirely. Then, if a problem appear, lets fix it. And if a new software appearing depending on systemd as PID1, I'll not use it, simple as that. Again, I do

Re: Avoiding SystemD isn't hard

2014-10-21 Thread Raffaele Morelli
On 21/10/14 at 03:01pm, Steve Litt wrote: On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 17:19:08 +0200 Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote: A blog post explaining why it isn't mandatory, the utter futility of the fork and more besides, clearly and simply.

Re: Avoiding systemd

2014-05-11 Thread Erwan David
Le 10/05/2014 21:49, Cameron Norman a écrit : Greetings John, El Sat, 10 de May 2014 a las 9:05 AM, John johnrchamp...@wowway.com escribió: After following the discussions of systemd (including everything on debian-devel), I find myself appalled at the rude and domineering attitudes of

Re: Avoiding systemd

2014-05-11 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 03:47:47PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: This one. The systemd package contains other dbus services that you don't want to try to exclude from a desktop system; and libpam-systemd provides necessary integration with policykit on those same systems. So basically what

Avoiding systemd

2014-05-10 Thread John
After following the discussions of systemd (including everything on debian-devel), I find myself appalled at the rude and domineering attitudes of almost all systemd's defenders. I don't trust them. Accordingly, I'd like to keep systemd off my machine (sid) to the extent practical until

Re: Avoiding systemd

2014-05-10 Thread Cameron Norman
Greetings John, El Sat, 10 de May 2014 a las 9:05 AM, John johnrchamp...@wowway.com escribió: After following the discussions of systemd (including everything on debian-devel), I find myself appalled at the rude and domineering attitudes of almost all systemd's defenders. I don't trust them.

Re: Avoiding systemd

2014-05-10 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi John, On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 12:05:25PM -0400, John wrote: After following the discussions of systemd (including everything on debian-devel), I find myself appalled at the rude and domineering attitudes of almost all systemd's defenders. I don't trust them. Accordingly, I'd like to keep