Re: Stretch & Safely Replacing systemd?

2017-03-06 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Mar 03, 2017 at 09:42:10AM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > All that's why I consider systemd so insidious. It forces you to use it > whether you want to or not. Something Microsoft has been doing to > their users for decades. ;-) You started this thread with > I don't like systemd (why

Re: Stretch & Safely Replacing systemd?

2017-03-04 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sat, 4 Mar 2017 22:15:18 +0100 didier gaumet wrote: > Le 04/03/2017 à 16:19, Patrick Bartek a écrit : > > > I'm aware of Devuan and tested it in VirtualBox. > [...] > > also looked at AntiX and mx-16. They are systemd free, too, but as > > with Devuan both are based on Jessie.. > [...] > >

Re: Stretch & Safely Replacing systemd?

2017-03-04 Thread didier gaumet
Le 04/03/2017 à 16:19, Patrick Bartek a écrit : > I'm aware of Devuan and tested it in VirtualBox. [...] > also looked at AntiX and mx-16. They are systemd free, too, but as with > Devuan both are based on Jessie.. [...] last stable version available, five years support and systemd-free but not

Re: Stretch & Safely Replacing systemd? AntiX

2017-03-04 Thread songbird
GiaThnYgeia wrote: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AntiX > > [antiX is a Linux distribution, originally based on MEPIS, which itself > is based on the Debian stable distribution. It initially replaced the > MEPIS KDE desktop environment with the Fluxbox and IceWM window > managers, making it suitab

Re: Stretch & Safely Replacing systemd? AntiX

2017-03-04 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sat, 04 Mar 2017 11:38:00 + GiaThnYgeia wrote: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AntiX > > [antiX is a Linux distribution, originally based on MEPIS, which > [snip] Aware of it. Also mx-16 is a systemd-free distro put together by former Mepis and AntiX people. Unfortuantely, both are bas

Re: Stretch & Safely Replacing systemd?

2017-03-04 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Fri, 3 Mar 2017 22:24:46 +0100 (CET) Aquarius wrote: > Maybe Devuan would meet your requirements of using the init system > you would like to use. It is not on Stretch yet but on Jessie. I'm aware of Devuan and tested it in VirtualBox. At the time ( a year ago), it was still pretty rough aro

Re: Stretch & Safely Replacing systemd? AntiX

2017-03-04 Thread GiaThnYgeia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AntiX [antiX is a Linux distribution, originally based on MEPIS, which itself is based on the Debian stable distribution. It initially replaced the MEPIS KDE desktop environment with the Fluxbox and IceWM window managers, making it suitable for older, less powerful x8

Re: Stretch & Safely Replacing systemd?

2017-03-03 Thread Aquarius
Maybe Devuan would meet your requirements of using the init system you would like to use. It is not on Stretch yet but on Jessie. -- Securely sent with Tutanota. Claim your encrypted mailbox today! https://tutanota.com 3. Mar 2017 20:21 by wande...@fastmail.fm: > On 2017-03-03 at 13:00, Reco w

Re: Stretch & Safely Replacing systemd?

2017-03-03 Thread The Wanderer
On 2017-03-03 at 13:00, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Fri, 03 Mar 2017 07:25:13 -0500 > The Wanderer wrote: > >> systemd as the init system is provided by the systemd-sysv package. I >> have that package pinned to never install in /etc/preferences: >> >> Package: systemd-sysv >> Pin: version

Re: Stretch & Safely Replacing systemd?

2017-03-03 Thread The Wanderer
On 2017-03-03 at 12:42, Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Fri, 03 Mar 2017 07:25:13 -0500 The Wanderer > wrote: > >> On 2017-03-02 at 13:01, Patrick Bartek wrote: >> >>> I've been considering Stretch as a clean install or dist-upgrade >>> of my aging Wheezy desktop setup as well as to install on a new

Re: Stretch & Safely Replacing systemd?

2017-03-03 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, 03 Mar 2017 07:25:13 -0500 The Wanderer wrote: > systemd as the init system is provided by the systemd-sysv package. I > have that package pinned to never install in /etc/preferences: > > Package: systemd-sysv > Pin: version * > Pin-Priority: -1 > > but this doesn't seem to

Re: Stretch & Safely Replacing systemd?

2017-03-03 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Fri, 03 Mar 2017 07:25:13 -0500 The Wanderer wrote: > On 2017-03-02 at 13:01, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > I've been considering Stretch as a clean install or dist-upgrade of > > my aging Wheezy desktop setup as well as to install on a new > > notebook I've yet to decide on. I don't like syst

Re: Stretch & Safely Replacing systemd?

2017-03-03 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Thu, 2 Mar 2017 21:47:05 +0100 wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 10:01:17AM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > I've been considering Stretch as a clean install or dist-upgrade of > > my aging Wheezy desktop setup as well as to install on a new

Re: Stretch & Safely Replacing systemd?

2017-03-03 Thread The Wanderer
On 2017-03-02 at 13:01, Patrick Bartek wrote: > I've been considering Stretch as a clean install or dist-upgrade of > my aging Wheezy desktop setup as well as to install on a new notebook > I've yet to decide on. I don't like systemd (why is unimportant to > this query). I plan to use some other

Re: Stretch & Safely Replacing systemd?

2017-03-02 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 10:01:17AM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > I've been considering Stretch as a clean install or dist-upgrade of my > aging Wheezy desktop setup as well as to install on a new notebook I've > yet to decide on. I don't like systemd

Stretch & Safely Replacing systemd?

2017-03-02 Thread Patrick Bartek
I've been considering Stretch as a clean install or dist-upgrade of my aging Wheezy desktop setup as well as to install on a new notebook I've yet to decide on. I don't like systemd (why is unimportant to this query). I plan to use some other init system, probably runit. So ... Just how dependen

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-10 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Wed, 10 Dec 2014, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 09 dec 14, 18:48:54, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > What patterns did you see? > > > > What claims did I make? What a lot of Debian server admins think of > > systemd? A rhetorical statement. A lot of Debian server admins > > don't like syste

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 09 dec 14, 18:48:54, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > What patterns did you see? > > What claims did I make? What a lot of Debian server admins think of > systemd? A rhetorical statement. A lot of Debian server admins > don't like systemd to put it mildly. They said so -- explicitly -- with >

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-09 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sun, 07 Dec 2014, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 06 dec 14, 13:56:34, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > On Sat, 06 Dec 2014, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > > On Lu, 01 dec 14, 23:05:09, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > > > > > Well, we already know what a lot of Debian server admins think > > > > of syst

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 10:15:24AM -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > > It IS accurate to say that after Jessie is released as stable. Jessie No. 'Jessie is frozen *until* it is released as stable. > has been frozen, and only RC fixes are being made. This is not > considered an RC fix. That link I

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 06 dec 14, 13:56:34, Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Sat, 06 Dec 2014, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > On Lu, 01 dec 14, 23:05:09, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > > > Well, we already know what a lot of Debian server admins think of > > > systemd. > > > > Care to back this up with some data? > >

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-06 Thread Ric Moore
On 12/06/2014 04:56 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Sat, 06 Dec 2014, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 01 dec 14, 23:05:09, Patrick Bartek wrote: Well, we already know what a lot of Debian server admins think of systemd. Care to back this up with some data? Why? You've read this list regarding

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-06 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sat, 06 Dec 2014, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 01 dec 14, 23:05:09, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > Well, we already know what a lot of Debian server admins think of > > systemd. > > Care to back this up with some data? Why? You've read this list regarding systemd and Debian same as I. Su

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 06 dec 14, 20:40:21, Erwan David wrote: > Le 06/12/2014 15:19, Andrei POPESCU a écrit : > > On Lu, 01 dec 14, 23:05:09, Patrick Bartek wrote: > >> Well, we already know what a lot of Debian server admins think of > >> systemd. > > Care to back this up with some data? > > > They may think o

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-06 Thread Ric Moore
On 12/06/2014 02:40 PM, Erwan David wrote: Le 06/12/2014 15:19, Andrei POPESCU a écrit : On Lu, 01 dec 14, 23:05:09, Patrick Bartek wrote: Well, we already know what a lot of Debian server admins think of systemd. Care to back this up with some data? Kind regards, Andrei They may think of sy

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-06 Thread Erwan David
Le 06/12/2014 15:19, Andrei POPESCU a écrit : > On Lu, 01 dec 14, 23:05:09, Patrick Bartek wrote: >> Well, we already know what a lot of Debian server admins think of >> systemd. > Care to back this up with some data? > > Kind regards, > Andrei They may think of systemd saying "were is this M%µ£i

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 02 dec 14, 16:52:46, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > Well, actually, it does involve a little more than downloading debootstrap, > applying the patch, and compiling. As Brian already said, debootstrap is just a bunch of scripts, so no compiling involved. > One has to build a custom copy of d-i

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 01 dec 14, 23:05:09, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > Well, we already know what a lot of Debian server admins think of > systemd. Care to back this up with some data? Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: htt

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-04 Thread Ric Moore
On 12/04/2014 03:16 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Thursday 04 December 2014 19:41:44 Brad Rogers wrote: On Thu, 4 Dec 2014 18:48:31 + Brian wrote: Hello Brian, It probably also makes my behaviour stupid. But stupidity is in short supply as you two have a monopoly on it and it doesn't look lik

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-04 Thread Ric Moore
On 12/04/2014 12:33 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Wed, 03 Dec 2014, Brad Rogers wrote: On Wed, 3 Dec 2014 09:24:03 -0800 Patrick Bartek wrote: Hello Patrick, use and no one else's, why distribute it at all? Simple: Ego. Perhaps. Or insecurity, and the need for validation. Or arroganc

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-04 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 4 Dec 2014 20:16:16 + Lisi Reisz wrote: Hello Lisi, >No, this is what had started that part of the thread: I meant from where I chipped in. Sorry I didn't make it clear. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately appa

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 04 December 2014 19:41:44 Brad Rogers wrote: > On Thu, 4 Dec 2014 18:48:31 + > Brian wrote: > > Hello Brian, > > >It probably also makes my behaviour stupid. But stupidity is in short > >supply as you two have a monopoly on it and it doesn't look like you > >you are going to do any

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-04 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 4 Dec 2014 18:48:31 + Brian wrote: Hello Brian, >It probably also makes my behaviour stupid. But stupidity is in short >supply as you two have a monopoly on it and it doesn't look like you >you are going to do any sharing. We were talking about a subset of developers, not *all* of t

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-04 Thread Brian
On Thu 04 Dec 2014 at 09:33:30 -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Wed, 03 Dec 2014, Brad Rogers wrote: > > > On Wed, 3 Dec 2014 09:24:03 -0800 > > Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > Hello Patrick, > > > > >use and no one else's, why distribute it at all? > > > > Simple: Ego. > > > > Perhaps. Or

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-04 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Wed, 03 Dec 2014, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Wed, 3 Dec 2014 09:24:03 -0800 > Patrick Bartek wrote: > > Hello Patrick, > > >use and no one else's, why distribute it at all? > > Simple: Ego. > Perhaps. Or insecurity, and the need for validation. Or arrogance. Or all the above. B -- To

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-03 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Tue, 02 Dec 2014, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > > Le 02.12.2014 08:05, Patrick Bartek a écrit : > > >> >> > and more and more > >> >> > developers will start writing apps with systemd, or parts of > >> it, > >> >> > as a dependency for the "features" it offers. > >> > >> It's the

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-03 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 3 Dec 2014 09:24:03 -0800 Patrick Bartek wrote: Hello Patrick, >use and no one else's, why distribute it at all? Simple: Ego. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately apparent" I'll be the paint on the side if you'll be

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-03 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Tue, 02 Dec 2014, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 02 December 2014 07:05:09 Patrick Bartek wrote: > > User's do contrain.  They even dictate.  Always have.  Developers > > should, if they are samrt, be developing what customers want or > > need. Not the other way around. That's the formula for g

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-03 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 12/3/2014 9:38 AM, The Wanderer wrote: > On 12/03/2014 at 07:43 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: > >> On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 05:15:36PM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: >> >>> On Sun, 30 Nov 2014, Chris Bannister wrote: > Nothing is final yet, jessie is still a moving target IOW not yet stabl

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-03 Thread The Wanderer
On 12/03/2014 at 07:43 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 05:15:36PM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > >> On Sun, 30 Nov 2014, Chris Bannister wrote: >>> Nothing is final yet, jessie is still a moving target IOW not >>> yet stable, so not just semantics. >> >> Yes. Semantics. J

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 05:15:36PM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Sun, 30 Nov 2014, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > [I've somehow deleted the other messages, so this one will have to do] > > > > On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 01:59:02PM +0100, Jochen Spieker wrote: > > > Patrick Bartek: > > > > On Thu,

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-02 Thread Brian
On Tue 02 Dec 2014 at 18:37:04 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Brian wrote: > >On Tue 02 Dec 2014 at 16:52:46 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > > >>Brian wrote: > >>>On Wed 03 Dec 2014 at 02:27:26 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > >>> > >Do you have a citation for this? > I'm glad you asked. >

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-02 Thread Miles Fidelman
Brian wrote: On Tue 02 Dec 2014 at 16:52:46 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: Brian wrote: On Wed 03 Dec 2014 at 02:27:26 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: Do you have a citation for this? I'm glad you asked. No - I "presumed" that amongst the "lots" of experts so opposed to the late-command option,

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-02 Thread Brian
On Tue 02 Dec 2014 at 16:52:46 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Brian wrote: > >On Wed 03 Dec 2014 at 02:27:26 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > > >>>Do you have a citation for this? > >>I'm glad you asked. > >>No - I "presumed" that amongst the "lots" of experts so opposed to the > >>late-command op

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-02 Thread Miles Fidelman
Brian wrote: On Wed 03 Dec 2014 at 02:27:26 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: Do you have a citation for this? I'm glad you asked. No - I "presumed" that amongst the "lots" of experts so opposed to the late-command option, at least one of them would apply Kenshi's patch (which apparently works) to

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-02 Thread Ric Moore
On 12/02/2014 02:34 AM, Stephan Seitz wrote: Debian has kindled a big fire with this systemd crap. It’s time to jump ship before you only have ashes. Shade and sweet water! Stephan yes! Yes! RUNAWAY!! :) Ric -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-02 Thread Brian
On Wed 03 Dec 2014 at 02:27:26 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > Do you have a citation for this? > > I'm glad you asked. > No - I "presumed" that amongst the "lots" of experts so opposed to the > late-command option, at least one of them would apply Kenshi's patch > (which apparently works) to d-

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-02 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 3 December 2014 at 01:36, The Wanderer wrote: > On 12/02/2014 at 07:23 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > >> On 2 December 2014 at 18:05, Patrick Bartek >> wrote: >> >>> On Tue, 02 Dec 2014, Scott Ferguson wrote: > Depends on what 'you' call "*default*". It implies a choice - as opposed to

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-02 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 3 December 2014 at 01:18, Joel Rees wrote: > On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 9:23 PM, Scott Ferguson > wrote: >> On 2 December 2014 at 18:05, Patrick Bartek wrote: >>> On Tue, 02 Dec 2014, Scott Ferguson wrote: >>> On 2 December 2014 at 08:18, Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Mon, 01 Dec 201

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-02 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 2 December 2014 at 23:53, Joel Rees wrote: > On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 9:04 PM, Laurent Bigonville wrote: >> Le Mon, 1 Dec 2014 23:05:09 -0800, >> Patrick Bartek a écrit : >> >>> On Tue, 02 Dec 2014, Scott Ferguson wrote: >>> >>> > On 2 December 2014 at 08:18, Patrick Bartek >>> > wrote: >>> >

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-02 Thread The Wanderer
On 12/02/2014 at 07:23 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 2 December 2014 at 18:05, Patrick Bartek > wrote: > >> On Tue, 02 Dec 2014, Scott Ferguson wrote: >>> Depends on what 'you' call "*default*". It implies a choice - as >>> opposed to "*mandatory*". >> >> You do have a choice, but ONLY after

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-02 Thread Joel Rees
On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 9:23 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 2 December 2014 at 18:05, Patrick Bartek wrote: >> On Tue, 02 Dec 2014, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> >>> On 2 December 2014 at 08:18, Patrick Bartek >>> wrote: >>> > On Mon, 01 Dec 2014, Ric Moore wrote: >>> > >>> >> On 11/30/2014 11:27 PM,

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-02 Thread berenger . morel
Le 02.12.2014 08:05, Patrick Bartek a écrit : >> > and more and more >> > developers will start writing apps with systemd, or parts of it, >> > as a dependency for the "features" it offers. It's their choice - likewise it's your choice *not* to write alternatives. It 'sounds' like you're pr

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-02 Thread Joel Rees
On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 9:04 PM, Laurent Bigonville wrote: > Le Mon, 1 Dec 2014 23:05:09 -0800, > Patrick Bartek a écrit : > >> On Tue, 02 Dec 2014, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> >> > On 2 December 2014 at 08:18, Patrick Bartek >> > wrote: >> > > On Mon, 01 Dec 2014, Ric Moore wrote: >> > > >> > >> On

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-02 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 2 December 2014 at 18:05, Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Tue, 02 Dec 2014, Scott Ferguson wrote: > >> On 2 December 2014 at 08:18, Patrick Bartek >> wrote: >> > On Mon, 01 Dec 2014, Ric Moore wrote: >> > >> >> On 11/30/2014 11:27 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: >> >> >> [snip] >> >> > > > as the default

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-02 Thread Laurent Bigonville
Le Mon, 1 Dec 2014 23:05:09 -0800, Patrick Bartek a écrit : > On Tue, 02 Dec 2014, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > > On 2 December 2014 at 08:18, Patrick Bartek > > wrote: > > > On Mon, 01 Dec 2014, Ric Moore wrote: > > > > > >> On 11/30/2014 11:27 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > >> > > [snip] > > > >

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-02 Thread Stephen Allen
On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 11:49:15AM +0100, Laurent Bigonville wrote: > Le Mon, 01 Dec 2014 13:45:12 -0500, > Miles Fidelman a écrit : > > > Ric Moore wrote: > > > On 11/30/2014 11:27 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > > >> I fear that once systemd is firmly entrenched in Debian as the > > >> defaul

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-02 Thread Laurent Bigonville
Le Mon, 01 Dec 2014 13:45:12 -0500, Miles Fidelman a écrit : > Ric Moore wrote: > > On 11/30/2014 11:27 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > >> I fear that once systemd is firmly entrenched in Debian as the > >> default init more distros will follow suit, and more and more > >> developers will start w

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-02 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 02 December 2014 07:05:09 Patrick Bartek wrote: > User's do contrain.  They even dictate.  Always have.  Developers > should, if they are samrt, be developing what customers want or need. > Not the other way around. That's the formula for going out of business. > Listening to your custom

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-01 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 01:18:39PM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: Last time I checked -- two or three weeks ago -- only 6 distros besides Jessie were using systemd as the default: Fedora 15, RHEL 7, CentOS 7, Arch, OpenSUSE, and SUSE Server. Just read today Only SUSE Server 12 uses systemd, but

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-01 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Tue, 02 Dec 2014, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 2 December 2014 at 08:18, Patrick Bartek > wrote: > > On Mon, 01 Dec 2014, Ric Moore wrote: > > > >> On 11/30/2014 11:27 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > >> > [snip] > > > > > as the > >> > default init more distros will follow suit, > > Very few do no

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-01 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Mon, 01 Dec 2014, Ric Moore wrote: > On 12/01/2014 04:18 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > On Mon, 01 Dec 2014, Ric Moore wrote: > > > >> On 11/30/2014 11:27 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > >> > >>> I fear that once systemd is firmly entrenched in Debian as the > >>> default init more distros will foll

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-01 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 2 December 2014 at 08:18, Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Mon, 01 Dec 2014, Ric Moore wrote: > >> On 11/30/2014 11:27 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: >> >> > I fear that once If? > > >systemd is firmly entrenched in Debian ? Perl might be, but it seems a little hyperbolic to say systemd is (anymore the

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-01 Thread Ric Moore
On 12/01/2014 04:18 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Mon, 01 Dec 2014, Ric Moore wrote: On 11/30/2014 11:27 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: I fear that once systemd is firmly entrenched in Debian as the default init more distros will follow suit, and more and more developers will start writing apps wit

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-01 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 01 December 2014 21:18:39 Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Mon, 01 Dec 2014, Ric Moore wrote: > > On 11/30/2014 11:27 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > I fear that once systemd is firmly entrenched in Debian as the > > > default init more distros will follow suit, and more and more > > > develope

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-01 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Mon, 01 Dec 2014, Ric Moore wrote: > On 11/30/2014 11:27 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > I fear that once systemd is firmly entrenched in Debian as the > > default init more distros will follow suit, and more and more > > developers will start writing apps with systemd, or parts of it, as > >

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-01 Thread Miles Fidelman
Ric Moore wrote: On 11/30/2014 11:27 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: I fear that once systemd is firmly entrenched in Debian as the default init more distros will follow suit, and more and more developers will start writing apps with systemd, or parts of it, as a dependency for the "features" it offe

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-01 Thread Ric Moore
On 11/30/2014 11:27 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: I fear that once systemd is firmly entrenched in Debian as the default init more distros will follow suit, and more and more developers will start writing apps with systemd, or parts of it, as a dependency for the "features" it offers. Every other

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-11-30 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sun, 30 Nov 2014, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > [big snip] > > As for me, Wheezy is working fine, and I have no plans of > > dist-upgrading to Jessie, or even clean installing it other than as > > a learning experience. I'm going to see what transpires with the > > release

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-11-30 Thread Miles Fidelman
changes. Maybe, the release after Jessie will have the option to pick your init system. Just be grateful the support for REPLACING systemd with sysvinit is available and easy to do. There are work-arounds for dist-upgrading to Jessie without installing systemd as the init, but you'll still

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-11-30 Thread Martin Read
On 01/12/14 01:15, Patrick Bartek wrote: There are work-arounds for dist-upgrading to Jessie without installing systemd as the init, but you'll still have systemd dependencies (libraries usually) for software like GNOME3 or cups or udev to deal with. And you'll have to be on guard that some app d

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-11-30 Thread Patrick Bartek
0151.html > Aware of this from other sources, but mostly pointless now as Testing/Jessie was frozen 5 Nov. So, no major changes. Maybe, the release after Jessie will have the option to pick your init system. Just be grateful the support for REPLACING systemd with sysvinit is available and ea

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-11-30 Thread Chris Bannister
[I've somehow deleted the other messages, so this one will have to do] On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 01:59:02PM +0100, Jochen Spieker wrote: > Patrick Bartek: > > On Thu, 27 Nov 2014, John Hasler wrote: > >> Patrick Bartek writes: > >> > >>> It seems systemd cannot not be installed in Jessie. > >> You m

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-11-28 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Thu, 27 Nov 2014, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Thu, 27 Nov 2014, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > Now the strange thing: I've done some research, and it seems that > > all the init replacement procedures start with first replacing > > systemd with sysvinit, then proceeding wi

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-11-28 Thread The Wanderer
On 11/27/2014 at 11:08 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 10:10:23PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 11/27/2014 at 09:33 PM, John Hasler wrote: >> >>> Patrick Bartek writes: >>> It seems systemd cannot not be installed in Jessie. >>> >>> You mean Testing. Jessie has

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-11-28 Thread Jochen Spieker
Patrick Bartek: > On Thu, 27 Nov 2014, John Hasler wrote: >> Patrick Bartek writes: >> >>> It seems systemd cannot not be installed in Jessie. >> You mean Testing. Jessie has not been released. > Semantics. Ah, my favorite movie quote: "I'm offering you my body and you're offering me semantics!"

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-11-27 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 27 Nov 2014, Patrick Bartek wrote: > Now the strange thing: I've done some research, and it seems that all > the init replacement procedures start with first replacing systemd > with sysvinit, then proceeding with replacing sysvinit with the > desired init. Anyone have inf

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-11-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 10:10:23PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > On 11/27/2014 at 09:33 PM, John Hasler wrote: > > > Patrick Bartek writes: > > > >> It seems systemd cannot not be installed in Jessie. > > > > You mean Testing. Jessie has not been released. > > My understanding of the way the De

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-11-27 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Thu, 27 Nov 2014, John Hasler wrote: > Patrick Bartek writes: > > It seems systemd cannot not be installed in Jessie. > > You mean Testing. Jessie has not been released. Semantics. B -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-11-27 Thread The Wanderer
On 11/27/2014 at 09:33 PM, John Hasler wrote: > Patrick Bartek writes: > >> It seems systemd cannot not be installed in Jessie. > > You mean Testing. Jessie has not been released. My understanding of the way the Debian release codenames work / are used is that current testing (AKA "the current

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-11-27 Thread John Hasler
Patrick Bartek writes: > It seems systemd cannot not be installed in Jessie. You mean Testing. Jessie has not been released. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-11-27 Thread Patrick Bartek
acement process. Now the strange thing: I've done some research, and it seems that all the init replacement procedures start with first replacing systemd with sysvinit, then proceeding with replacing sysvinit with the desired init. Anyone have info or instructions to the contrary? I'

Re: mounting nfs on boot -- Was: Replacing systemd

2014-03-04 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 05/03/14 11:34, Rob Owens wrote: > On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 11:07:00AM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 05/03/14 10:36, Rob Owens wrote: >>> On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 01:52:19PM +, Darac Marjal wrote: Boot speed isn't systemd's goal. It's just a side-effect. Systemd's real goa

Re: mounting nfs on boot -- Was: Replacing systemd

2014-03-04 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 11:07:00AM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 05/03/14 10:36, Rob Owens wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 01:52:19PM +, Darac Marjal wrote: > >> Boot speed isn't systemd's goal. It's just a side-effect. > >> > >> Systemd's real goals are being event driven (so, for exam

Re: mounting nfs on boot -- Was: Replacing systemd

2014-03-04 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 05/03/14 10:36, Rob Owens wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 01:52:19PM +, Darac Marjal wrote: >> Boot speed isn't systemd's goal. It's just a side-effect. >> >> Systemd's real goals are being event driven (so, for example, you >> don't mount a file system until the device is ready - at the >

Re: Replacing systemd

2014-03-04 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 04 mar 14, 11:58:42, Pertti Kosunen wrote: > On 4.3.2014 11:16, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > >The decision was just about *the default*. (Is this so difficult to crasp?) > > When is this change coming to unstable? The sysvinit package (Essential: yes) has been transformed into a metapackag

Re: mounting nfs on boot -- Was: Replacing systemd

2014-03-04 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 01:52:19PM +, Darac Marjal wrote: > Boot speed isn't systemd's goal. It's just a side-effect. > > Systemd's real goals are being event driven (so, for example, you don't > mount a file system until the device is ready - at the moment, debian > does this with a two-pass

Re: Replacing systemd

2014-03-04 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 03/04/2014 10:00 AM, Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com wrote: The decision was just about *the default*. (Is this so difficult to > crasp?) Yes, it *was* hard for me to grasp. Reading all the email, I didn't understand that I'd still have a

Re: Replacing systemd

2014-03-04 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 09:37:57AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > On Mon, 3 Mar 2014 22:31:08 -0500 > Dan Ritter wrote: > > I would strongly consider a hybrid of the existing sysVinit and > > daemontools or runit -- runit being a reimplementation of daemontools > > that avoided the licensing issue and

Re: Replacing systemd

2014-03-04 Thread Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
On Tue, 04 Mar 2014 10:16:35 +0100 Martin Steigerwald wrote: > At least for Jessie as far as I understand all other inits are still > planned to be packaged. So either stick with sysv + insserv or choose > another one. > > The decision was just about *the default*. (Is this so difficult to > cr

Re: Replacing systemd

2014-03-04 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 3 Mar 2014 22:31:08 -0500 Dan Ritter wrote: > On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 08:50:09PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I just checked with my local Linux group (GoLUG), and the opinions > > there are that systemd is not a particularly good thing. I also > > heard from our LUG

Re: Replacing systemd

2014-03-04 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 08:06:59AM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 08:50:09PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I just checked with my local Linux group (GoLUG), and the opinions > > there are that systemd is not a particularly good thing. I also heard > > from ou

Re: Replacing systemd

2014-03-04 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 08:50:09PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I just checked with my local Linux group (GoLUG), and the opinions > there are that systemd is not a particularly good thing. I also heard > from our LUG's most vociferous proponent of Daemontools that Daemontools > wou

Re: Replacing systemd

2014-03-04 Thread Dan Ritter
On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 08:50:09PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I just checked with my local Linux group (GoLUG), and the opinions > there are that systemd is not a particularly good thing. I also heard > from our LUG's most vociferous proponent of Daemontools that Daemontools > wou

Re: Replacing systemd

2014-03-04 Thread Pertti Kosunen
On 4.3.2014 11:16, Martin Steigerwald wrote: The decision was just about *the default*. (Is this so difficult to crasp?) When is this change coming to unstable? Will it need any special actions when upgrading? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Replacing systemd

2014-03-04 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Montag, 3. März 2014, 20:50:09 schrieb Steve Litt: > Hi everyone, > > I just checked with my local Linux group (GoLUG), and the opinions > there are that systemd is not a particularly good thing. I also heard > from our LUG's most vociferous proponent of Daemontools that Daemontools > wouldn't

Re: Replacing systemd

2014-03-03 Thread Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
On Tue, 04 Mar 2014 04:07:33 +0100 Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > > On 04/03/14 02:50, Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I just checked with my local Linux group (GoLUG), and the opinions > > there are that systemd is not a particularly good thing. I also > > heard from our LUG's most vocif

Re: Replacing systemd

2014-03-03 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 04/03/14 02:50, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I just checked with my local Linux group (GoLUG), and the opinions > there are that systemd is not a particularly good thing. I also heard > from our LUG's most vociferous proponent of Daemontools that Daemontools > wouldn't be a good repla

Replacing systemd

2014-03-03 Thread Steve Litt
Hi everyone, I just checked with my local Linux group (GoLUG), and the opinions there are that systemd is not a particularly good thing. I also heard from our LUG's most vociferous proponent of Daemontools that Daemontools wouldn't be a good replacement because it has no concept of running things