Re: There is no choice

2014-09-21 Thread Miles Fidelman
Nate Bargmann wrote: * On 2014 21 Sep 06:52 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: The issue of the day (week) on debian-devel seems to be systemd-shim -- which kind of has to work for anyone to use an alternate init system; but seems NOT to work (or at least lag behind). When systemd-shim is forced to

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-21 Thread Peter Nieman
On 20/09/14 22:20, Don Armstrong wrote: In all of these separate threads, you have been doing little but maligning people who are volunteering for Debian. It's not a nice thing to do, it's not pleasant to read, and in doing so, you're actively draining existing contributor's desire to continue

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-21 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 21. September 2014, 08:59:16 schrieb Miles Fidelman: Nate Bargmann wrote: * On 2014 21 Sep 06:52 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: The issue of the day (week) on debian-devel seems to be systemd-shim -- which kind of has to work for anyone to use an alternate init system; but seems

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-21 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/21/2014 at 08:59 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Nate Bargmann wrote: I am most concerned about the systemd project's intention to subsume many other projects rather than simply be a cooperative member of the vast Free Software ecosystem.

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-21 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 21 September 2014 14:06:32 Peter Nieman wrote: But, and please correct me if I'm wrong, isn't it true that the developers we are talking about in the context of systemd and similar achievements - while maybe volunteering for Debian - are also paid developers working for a commercial

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-21 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2014 21 Sep 08:00 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: For what it's worth - the angst is reflected not just here, but on the debian-devel and the linux-kernel (kernel developers) list as well (I've started monitoring that to see to what extent kernel developers are starting to migrate to distros

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-21 Thread David L. Craig
On 14Sep21:0851-0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: * On 2014 21 Sep 08:00 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: Maybe systemd will give gnu/hurd, or minix, or plan 9 a boost. I've been looking at Guix this past week after discovering it almost by accident: I've been looking at Plan 9 for almost half a

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-21 Thread Martin Read
On 21/09/14 14:31, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Sunday 21 September 2014 14:06:32 Peter Nieman wrote: But, and please correct me if I'm wrong, isn't it true that the developers we are talking about in the context of systemd and similar achievements - while maybe volunteering for Debian - are also paid

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-21 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On 21 Sep 2014, at 15:08, David L. Craig dlc@gmail.com wrote: I've been looking at Plan 9 for almost half a year now, but since mid-July I've been focused on releasing a cookbook for bringing it up in a virt-manager administered virtual machine, and am closing in on releasing the

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-21 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 9/21/2014 5:15 AM, Bret Busby wrote: On 21/09/2014, Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net wrote: On 9/20/2014 4:20 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: On Sat, 20 Sep 2014, lee wrote: These few people are also very concerned with preventing other people, particularly users, from doing something which

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 21 Sep 2014 11:31:57 -0400 Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net wrote: I haven't said much until now, but I have followed the subject in depth the whole time. And I, for one, am very happy this was brought to my attention. It has allowed me to make an intelligent decision as to

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-21 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 9/21/2014 11:41 AM, Steve Litt wrote: On Sun, 21 Sep 2014 11:31:57 -0400 Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net wrote: I haven't said much until now, but I have followed the subject in depth the whole time. And I, for one, am very happy this was brought to my attention. It has allowed me

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 21 Sep 2014 11:57:36 -0400 Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net wrote: On 9/21/2014 11:41 AM, Steve Litt wrote: On Sun, 21 Sep 2014 11:31:57 -0400 Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net wrote: I haven't said much until now, but I have followed the subject in depth the whole

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-21 Thread Slavko
. In last 10 years i see a big step to forward. Namely: choice of the DE in installer, multiarch, config files, no problem updates, and many a and many other things. But in last one or two years, there comes some problems (which i mentioned here more times), but they are in particular packages

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-21 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 9/21/2014 12:03 PM, Steve Litt wrote: On Sun, 21 Sep 2014 11:57:36 -0400 Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net wrote: On 9/21/2014 11:41 AM, Steve Litt wrote: On Sun, 21 Sep 2014 11:31:57 -0400 Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net wrote: I haven't said much until now, but I have

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-21 Thread Miles Fidelman
Steve Litt wrote: On Sun, 21 Sep 2014 11:31:57 -0400 Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net wrote: I haven't said much until now, but I have followed the subject in depth the whole time. And I, for one, am very happy this was brought to my attention. It has allowed me to make an intelligent

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-21 Thread Ста Деюс
Доброго времени суток, Miles. Спасибо за ответ, Sun, 21 Sep 2014 13:23:57 -0400 вы писали: I haven't said much until now, but I have followed the subject in depth the whole time. And I, for one, am very happy this was brought to my attention. It has allowed me to make an intelligent

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-21 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 11:31:57AM -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: Obviously it is important enough to enough users that it continues here. And shutting people up is not going to make the problem go away. It will, however, make users go away. I, for one, am looking at other systems now. And

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-21 Thread lee
Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com writes: Can we please have a list established, that is purely for providing support for users, and, that is free of the perpetual bitching - systemd this and systemd that? Nobody prevents you from establishing such a list ... -- Knowledge is volatile and

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-21 Thread lee
Martin Read zen75...@zen.co.uk writes: On 21/09/14 04:14, lee wrote: Try to provide a Debian package and you'll see that it is so ridiculously difficult that it is virtually impossible. Nothing about the process of providing a Debian package looks ridiculously difficult to me. I started to

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-21 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 9/21/2014 2:39 PM, Ста Деюс wrote: Доброго времени суток, Miles. Спасибо за ответ, Sun, 21 Sep 2014 13:23:57 -0400 вы писали: I haven't said much until now, but I have followed the subject in depth the whole time. And I, for one, am very happy this was brought to my attention. It has

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-21 Thread Martin Read
On 21/09/14 16:15, lee wrote: Martin Read zen75...@zen.co.uk writes: Nothing about the process of providing a Debian package looks ridiculously difficult to me. I started to read the huge documentation about how to do it and didn't get anywhere with it. I had that experience. Then I found

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 21 Sep 2014 18:42:18 + Andrew M.A. Cater amaca...@galactic.demon.co.uk wrote: Jessie freezes no later than November 5th 2014. Allow folk who are trying to work on the distribution to work on it and not to have to intervene in this sort of discussion, please. Wow, how things have

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-21 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sun, 21 Sep 2014, Steve Litt wrote: Wow, how things have changed. Whatever happened to it's ready when it's ready? That quote referring to the release, which is distinct from when testing freezes. Testing is rarely ready, which is why we have to freeze it in the first place. Once all of the

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-21 Thread John Hasler
Steve Litt writes: Wow, how things have changed. Whatever happened to it's ready when it's ready? It *freezes* Nov. 5. It's *ready* when it's ready. This is not a new development. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-21 Thread lee
Andrew M.A. Cater amaca...@galactic.demon.co.uk writes: Jessie freezes no later than November 5th 2014. Allow folk who are trying to work on the distribution to work on it and not to have to intervene in this sort of discussion, please. Nobody prevents them from doing either or forces them

There is no choice

2014-09-20 Thread lee
Cindy-Sue Causey butterflyby...@gmail.com writes: What the person did was provide a digestible alternative for potential peers to review. People can tear it apart verbally and/or build upon it if they see value in what was presented.. That's what I imagine happening here, but I'm still

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-20 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sat, 20 Sep 2014, lee wrote: These few people are also very concerned with preventing other people, particularly users, from doing something which would contribute to what they claim that they are doing. Exactly how are Debian Developers preventing others from contributing? Almost

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 20 September 2014 21:20:15 Don Armstrong wrote: you're actively draining existing contributor's desire to continue working on Debian. This is what I have been so afraid of all along. All this criticism is so demoralising and demotivating. Please, Don, carry on. I for one am very

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-20 Thread Jerry Stuckle
you don't listen, then the complaints will continue, and no threats from the developers will stop that - in fact it will encourage it. And you can believe me - if it were a choice between developing for Debian and taking my wife out to dinner on Saturday night, the wife will come first. Jerry

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-20 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sat, 20 Sep 2014, Jerry Stuckle wrote: It seems the developers make the decisions and users feel left out. What we want does not seem to matter. There are positive methods of influencing the decisions that Debian makes and negative methods. Positive methods include: 1) filing accurate bug

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-20 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 9/20/2014 9:51 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: On Sat, 20 Sep 2014, Jerry Stuckle wrote: It seems the developers make the decisions and users feel left out. What we want does not seem to matter. There are positive methods of influencing the decisions that Debian makes and negative methods.

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-20 Thread Jeff Bauer
On 09/20/2014 04:20 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: On Sat, 20 Sep 2014, lee wrote: These few people are also very concerned with preventing other people, particularly users, from doing something which would contribute to what they claim that they are doing. Exactly how are Debian Developers

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-20 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 20 Sep 2014 19:48:19 -0400 Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net wrote: On 9/20/2014 4:20 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: On Sat, 20 Sep 2014, lee wrote: These few people are also very concerned with preventing other people, particularly users, from doing something which would contribute

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Don Armstrong wrote: Exactly how are Debian Developers preventing others from contributing? For one by closing bugs without fixing them. As users we are always admonished to file bugs. But whether those bugs will be acknowledge and handled appropriately depends upon the project. My experience

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-20 Thread John Hasler
All of your points were debated extensively and vigorously on the debian-devel list in the months leading up to the decision. It's all in the mailing-list archive. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-20 Thread lee
Don Armstrong d...@debian.org writes: On Sat, 20 Sep 2014, lee wrote: These few people are also very concerned with preventing other people, particularly users, from doing something which would contribute to what they claim that they are doing. Exactly how are Debian Developers preventing

Re: Choice of init system?

2014-09-19 Thread Brian
On Thu 18 Sep 2014 at 20:15:57 -0400, Ed Jabbour wrote: Does (or will) the Jessie install offer a choice of systemd or sys5init? https://lists.debian.org/5412f584.6080...@aol.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Choice of init system?

2014-09-19 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/18/2014 at 08:15 PM, Ed Jabbour wrote: Does (or will) the Jessie install offer a choice of systemd or sys5init? According to my best understanding (having not taken the time to try a new install myself recently), the installer itself does

Re: Choice of init system?

2014-09-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 08:15:57PM -0400, Ed Jabbour wrote: Does (or will) the Jessie install offer a choice of systemd or sys5init? Seems like it will offer a choice. How obvious that there is a choice, I have no idea about, you/we will have to wait until Jessie is declared the new Stable

Re: Choice of init system?

2014-09-19 Thread Jeff Bauer
On 09/19/2014 10:52 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 08:15:57PM -0400, Ed Jabbour wrote: Does (or will) the Jessie install offer a choice of systemd or sys5init? Seems like it will offer a choice. How obvious that there is a choice, I have no idea about, you/we will have

Choice of init system?

2014-09-18 Thread Ed Jabbour
Does (or will) the Jessie install offer a choice of systemd or sys5init? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201409182015.57493.e...@att.net

But there is a choice to not use systemd (war: Re: View on UNIX purism in Linux Community)

2014-09-16 Thread Martin Steigerwald
, the ability to choose. True freedom is having a choice, and as some have stated, the only choice they see may be to move to another operating system if Debian doesn't give them choice within it. But there is always choice. At the moment you *have* a choice. I think Debian one of the *few

Re: But there is a choice to not use systemd (war: Re: View on UNIX purism in Linux Community)

2014-09-16 Thread Andre N Batista
to their work. Anyway I think that the real subject is, as others have said, the ability to choose. True freedom is having a choice, and as some have stated, the only choice they see may be to move to another operating system if Debian doesn't give them choice within

Re: But there is a choice to not use systemd (war: Re: View on UNIX purism in Linux Community)

2014-09-16 Thread Martin Read
On 16/09/14 17:43, Andre N Batista wrote: I find your lack of imagination disturbing. So disturbing that I here and now propose a better approach: dox da madafuka hairy poetter and point these threads as his fault, his problem. For years to come people would remember what happens to those who

Re: But there is a choice to not use systemd (war: Re: View on UNIX purism in Linux Community)

2014-09-16 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 16 Sep 2014, Andre N Batista wrote: dox da madafuka hairy poetter and point these threads as his fault, his problem. Threats like this have absolutely no place on Debian mailing lists. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Grimble left his mother in the

Re: But there is a choice to not use systemd (war: Re: View on UNIX purism in Linux Community)

2014-09-16 Thread Ric Moore
On 09/16/2014 01:36 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 16 Sep 2014, Andre N Batista wrote: dox da madafuka hairy poetter and point these threads as his fault, his problem. Threats like this have absolutely no place on Debian mailing lists. Threat? I couldn't figure out what he was saying,

Re: But there is a choice to not use systemd (war: Re: View on UNIX purism in Linux Community)

2014-09-16 Thread Bzzzz
On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 10:36:51 -0700 Don Armstrong d...@debian.org wrote: Threats like this have absolutely no place on Debian mailing lists. Let it be, at this rate there will be blood (a lot) for Halloween ;-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: But there is a choice to not use systemd (war: Re: View on UNIX purism in Linux Community)

2014-09-16 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
think that the real subject is, as others have said, the ability to choose. True freedom is having a choice, and as some have stated, the only choice they see may be to move to another operating system if Debian doesn't give them choice within it. But there is always choice. At the moment

Re: dirvish still a good choice?

2014-03-31 Thread Mark Neyhart
On 03/29/2014 01:32 PM, Peter Michaux wrote: On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 5:02 PM, Mark Neyhart mark.neyh...@akleg.gov wrote: On 03/28/2014 03:22 PM, Peter Michaux wrote: Is Dirvish still a good choice in 2014? Dirvish just works. I've been using it for years. Where is your bank directory

Re: dirvish still a good choice?

2014-03-29 Thread Slavko
Hi, Dňa Fri, 28 Mar 2014 16:22:07 -0700 Peter Michaux petermich...@gmail.com napísal: Looking at the Dirvish website [2] it seems that the project has been inactive since 2008. Perhaps Dirvish is such a simple layer over top of rsync that its been stable and hasn't needed attention in all

Re: dirvish still a good choice?

2014-03-29 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 29 Mar 2014 12:31:28 +0100 Slavko li...@slavino.sk wrote: Hi, Dňa Fri, 28 Mar 2014 16:22:07 -0700 Peter Michaux petermich...@gmail.com napísal: Looking at the Dirvish website [2] it seems that the project has been inactive since 2008. Perhaps Dirvish is such a simple layer

Re: dirvish still a good choice?

2014-03-29 Thread Slavko
Hi, Dňa Sat, 29 Mar 2014 11:01:21 -0400 Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com napísal: On Sat, 29 Mar 2014 12:31:28 +0100 Slavko li...@slavino.sk wrote: Dňa Fri, 28 Mar 2014 16:22:07 -0700 Peter Michaux petermich...@gmail.com napísal: Looking at the Dirvish website [2] it seems that

Re: dirvish still a good choice?

2014-03-29 Thread Peter Michaux
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 5:02 PM, Mark Neyhart mark.neyh...@akleg.gov wrote: On 03/28/2014 03:22 PM, Peter Michaux wrote: Is Dirvish still a good choice in 2014? Dirvish just works. I've been using it for years. Where is your bank directory? The example configuration file has /backups

dirvish still a good choice?

2014-03-28 Thread Peter Michaux
in all this time. Is Dirvish still a good choice in 2014? Thanks, Peter [1] http://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/sect.backup.html [2] http://www.dirvish.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: dirvish still a good choice?

2014-03-28 Thread Steve Litt
is such a simple layer over top of rsync that its been stable and hasn't needed attention in all this time. Is Dirvish still a good choice in 2014? Thanks, Peter Hi Peter, This isn't responsive to your question, but if you find out that Dirvish isn't what you want, here's the rsync based backup

Re: dirvish still a good choice?

2014-03-28 Thread Mark Neyhart
On 03/28/2014 03:22 PM, Peter Michaux wrote: Is Dirvish still a good choice in 2014? Dirvish just works. I've been using it for years. Mark Neyhart -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: dirvish still a good choice?

2014-03-28 Thread Brad Alexander
-dedicate to) backups. I am not at all familiar with Dirvish, however, the Debian Administrator's Handbook came out in 2012 or 2013, so it was after the last release of Dirvish. Is Dirvish still a good choice in 2014? I say give it a shot. If it works for you and doesn't have any obvious issues

Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems - SysV is FINE.

2014-03-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 04:02:21PM -0800, Arnold Bird wrote: I should be able to chose my init system, just as I am able to chose my kernel, my window manager, my email client, everything. https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2014/02/msg00503.html Linux IS about choice. http

Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems - SysV is FINE.

2014-03-04 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 3/3/2014 7:27 PM, Doug wrote: /snip/ Two comments: 1. Debian is *not* the universal operating system. After Windows and Mac OsX, and maybe Unix, probably Ubuntu is. I'd have to give the Universal crown to NetBSD: http://www.netbsd.org/ports/#ports-by-cpu Maybe one of the other

Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems - SysV is FINE.

2014-03-04 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 05/03/14 01:37, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: On 3/3/2014 7:27 PM, Doug wrote: /snip/ Two comments: 1. Debian is *not* the universal operating system. After Windows and Mac OsX, and maybe Unix, probably Ubuntu is. I'd have to give the Universal crown to NetBSD:

Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems - SysV is FINE.

2014-03-03 Thread Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
a life. You don't like Debian's choice. That's cool. There are lots of distros out there. And it sounds to me like it might be doable to replace your distro's chosen initialization. Rather than tell Debian people how stupid the Debian choice was, why don't you just choose another distro? Why don't you

Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems - SysV is FINE.

2014-03-03 Thread Arnold Bird
it is again: You do not like systemd, then get out Simple mantra repeated by the systemd men and women. I should be able to chose my init system, just as I am able to chose my kernel, my window manager, my email client, everything. Linux IS about choice. Debian doubly so. Debian IS the universal

Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems - SysV is FINE.

2014-03-03 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 04/03/14 11:02, Arnold Bird wrote: I myself do not like systemd either. Bully for you. You've pointed that out, many times. Maybe using all those different names has further confused you - Fred Wilson, Natural Linux, NoStuffIdontUnderstand, etc, unless... it's all an act. snipped more bile

Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems - SysV is FINE.

2014-03-03 Thread Doug
On 03/03/2014 07:02 PM, Arnold Bird wrote: I myself do not like systemd either. Why don't I go use some other distro since a vote was won on some corner mailing list by a grand total of 4 people infavor and 4 people against about one week ago?? Well: Debian is the universal operating system.

Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems - SysV is FINE. Systemd won, sysV/OpenRC/etc fans must leave

2014-03-03 Thread Arnold Bird
out of your own country. Go create your own, we bought the politicians and thus control the passive army --- dmcgarr...@optonline.net wrote: From: Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems - SysV is FINE. Date

Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-03-03 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Once again, you rant multiple lists whilst hiding who you are. I am Zenaan Harkness. I have some (not all) strongly held views. As an aside, I shall use systemd and have tried a few times now, but have a technical issue or two with my setup when using systemd, which I need to find time to solve

Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems - SysV is FINE. Systemd won, sysV/OpenRC/etc fans must leave

2014-03-03 Thread Sam Kuper
--- dmcgarr...@optonline.net wrote: From: Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems - SysV is FINE. Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2014 19:27:23 -0500 [...] 1. Debian is *not* the universal operating system. After

Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems - SysV is FINE.

2014-03-03 Thread Zenaan Harkness
, everything. You're not gender-challenged? I am gender challenged - I'm pretty well stuck being the sex I am. But I don't complain on debian-user about that! Linux IS about choice. You might think it is. Sounds like you're stability-challenged to me. Perhaps leg-disabled? Debian doubly so. Debian

Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems - SysV is FINE. Systemd won, sysV/OpenRC/etc fans must leave

2014-03-03 Thread Zenaan Harkness
, etc. It's like getting kicked out of your own country. Go create your own, we bought the politicians and thus control the passive army --- dmcgarr...@optonline.net wrote: From: Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice

Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems - Linux IS about CHOICE

2014-03-02 Thread Matthias Urlichs
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Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems - Linux IS about CHOICE

2014-03-02 Thread Natural Linux
Matthias Urlichs, Why should we believe you or the bullshit excuses givenin the article?The fact is, last year none of this crap was needed.Now it suddenly is.Furthermore gnome stole libgtk from the gimp project recentlyand then they made an incompatable "libgtk" 3.0.And now they're requiring all

Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems - Linux IS about CHOICE

2014-03-02 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Yes, by all means we should ignore the fake personas, Mr. Natural Linux, whoever you are. On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 7:25 PM, Natural Linux naturalli...@dcemail.comwrote: Matthias Urlichs, Why should we believe you or the bullshit excuses given in the article? The fact is, last year none of

Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-03-02 Thread Natural Linux
Clearly such blatent politicking tarnishes that respect, and I'd imagine this is becoming a popular point of view. Cheers, Paul Says the systemd camp, which uses politics in every fight it wages (and it usually wins). Using the tech-ctte to change the OS in a fundamental way itself is an

Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems - SysV is FINE.

2014-03-02 Thread Natural Linux
System V is NOT hard to maintain The scripts were written YEARS ago. They're fine. They do NOT need to be changed. Debian SysV has concurrent boot aswell. Systemd is a poison apple. 200k lines of unaudited root privlege code. A consulting service to go along with this new _operating system_

Re: UTF-8 bugs (was: Deadline for jessie init system choice)

2013-12-30 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-12-29 23:39:41 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: I've orphaned xpp in 2010, and that's after it was as good as dead upstream since 2005 with no releases. The last time anyone touched the code upstream was in 2008. IMHO, we should just remove it from Debian. It was damn

Re: UTF-8 bugs (was: Deadline for jessie init system choice)

2013-12-29 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 29 Dec 2013, Vincent Lefevre wrote: * xpp does not support UTF-8 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=630717 I've orphaned xpp in 2010, and that's after it was as good as dead upstream since 2005 with no releases. The last time anyone touched the code upstream was in

UTF-8 bugs (was: Deadline for jessie init system choice)

2013-12-28 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-12-14 14:46:03 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: Pavel Volkov wrote: What's wrong with UTF-8 currently? fmt: incorrect formatting of UTF-8 text http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=650381 tr: fails to replace umlauts

Re: Deadline for jessie init system choice

2013-12-20 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 10:43 PM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Tom H wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: The most notable source of problems are /etc/init.d/foo where foo doesn't have current LSB headers. Those files cause problems when upgrading because the new 'insserv' program used in Wheezy

Re: Deadline for jessie init system choice

2013-12-18 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 10:02 PM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: The most notable source of problems are /etc/init.d/foo where foo doesn't have current LSB headers. Those files cause problems when upgrading because the new 'insserv' program used in Wheezy to set up parallel booting can't

Re: Deadline for jessie init system choice

2013-12-18 Thread Tom H
. There's no relationship between Debian choosing a default init system and having native systemd support in every package that has a sysvinit script. So, as I said up-thread, should the choice be systemd or upstart, the earlier that a decision is taken, the better in order to iron out any problems

Re: Deadline for jessie init system choice

2013-12-18 Thread Brian
choosing a default init system and having native systemd support in every package that has a sysvinit script. Ok. So, as I said up-thread, should the choice be systemd or upstart, the earlier that a decision is taken, the better in order to iron out any problems. A sound, common-sense strategy

Re: Deadline for jessie init system choice

2013-12-18 Thread Bob Proulx
Tom H wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: The most notable source of problems are /etc/init.d/foo where foo doesn't have current LSB headers. Those files cause problems when upgrading because the new 'insserv' program used in Wheezy to set up parallel booting can't work without the dependency

Re: Deadline for jessie init system choice

2013-12-17 Thread Brad Alexander
On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Sun 15 Dec 2013 at 14:03:36 +, Tom H wrote: The goal to have native systemd support in every package with sysv scripts (if accepted) and a decision on a new init system may be related, but only the first is linked to

Re: Deadline for jessie init system choice

2013-12-15 Thread Pavel Volkov
On Saturday 14 December 2013 15:02:04 Bob Proulx wrote: In my opinion one of the best features of Debian is that it supports upgrades. It isn't necessary to reinstall. At worst it is easier to take some _packages_ (some packages not the system, such as GNOME or KDE) off the system before

Re: Deadline for jessie init system choice

2013-12-15 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 15/12/13 20:04, Pavel Volkov wrote: On Saturday 14 December 2013 15:02:04 Bob Proulx wrote: In my opinion one of the best features of Debian is that it supports upgrades. It isn't necessary to reinstall. At worst it is easier to take some _packages_ (some packages not the system, such as

Re: Deadline for jessie init system choice

2013-12-15 Thread Nemeth Gyorgy
2013-12-15 10:04 keltezéssel, Pavel Volkov írta: In my opinion one of the best features of Debian is that it supports upgrades. It isn't necessary to reinstall. At worst it is easier to take some _packages_ (some packages not the system, such as GNOME or KDE) off the system before doing a

Re: Deadline for jessie init system choice

2013-12-15 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Fri, 2013-12-13 at 16:14 +, Tom H wrote: On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 8:00 PM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Thu 12 Dec 2013 at 23:37:31 +0400, Pavel Volkov wrote: I've browsed through the hot debates

Re: Deadline for jessie init system choice

2013-12-15 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 6:13 PM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Fri 13 Dec 2013 at 11:38:31 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 12 dec 13, 20:00:44, Brian wrote: Debian doesn't have deadlines. You'll have to wait. Think in terms of a couple of years for a decision to be made. I don't

Re: Deadline for jessie init system choice

2013-12-15 Thread Brian
On Sun 15 Dec 2013 at 14:03:36 +, Tom H wrote: On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 6:13 PM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Fri 13 Dec 2013 at 11:38:31 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 12 dec 13, 20:00:44, Brian wrote: Debian doesn't have deadlines. You'll have to wait. Think in terms of

Re: Deadline for jessie init system choice

2013-12-14 Thread Pavel Volkov
On Friday 13 December 2013 10:44:24 Bob Proulx wrote: In the future if Debian changes to a new init then it will be set up such that there is an upgrade path from one to the other. Because there are *lots* of Debian machines out in the world and Debian is all about being able to upgrade.

Re: Deadline for jessie init system choice

2013-12-14 Thread Pavel Volkov
On Friday 13 December 2013 17:26:01 Ralf Mardorf wrote: So if I later today set up Debian stable, I better directly drop init and install systemd during installation? I dislike systemd, but I already use it for a long time with my Arch Linux. IOW, Debian will drop init and will switch to

Re: Deadline for jessie init system choice

2013-12-14 Thread Brian
On Fri 13 Dec 2013 at 18:13:29 +, Brian wrote: On Fri 13 Dec 2013 at 11:38:31 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 12 dec 13, 20:00:44, Brian wrote: Debian doesn't have deadlines. You'll have to wait. Think in terms of a couple of years for a decision to be made. I don't

Re: Deadline for jessie init system choice

2013-12-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Pavel Volkov wrote: Brian wrote: The call for release goals has finished and we have received the following proposals: * UTF-8 What's wrong with UTF-8 currently? fmt: incorrect formatting of UTF-8 text http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=650381 tr: fails to

Re: Deadline for jessie init system choice

2013-12-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 14 Dec 2013 09:06:43 +0100, Pavel Volkov negai...@gmail.com wrote: Why do you think it will be systemd? Read the wiki page from my initial mail https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/initsystem You can click on systemd, upstart etc. there and see why it's considered good or bad. I ask,

Re: Deadline for jessie init system choice

2013-12-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Pavel Volkov wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: In the future if Debian changes to a new init then it will be set up such that there is an upgrade path from one to the other. Because there are *lots* of Debian machines out in the world and Debian is all about being able to upgrade. It's great

Re: Deadline for jessie init system choice

2013-12-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 12 dec 13, 20:00:44, Brian wrote: Debian doesn't have deadlines. You'll have to wait. Think in terms of a couple of years for a decision to be made. I don't think so. A timeline has not been decided yet, but it is my understanding that a decision is definitely wanted for Jessie and

Re: Deadline for jessie init system choice

2013-12-13 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 8:00 PM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Thu 12 Dec 2013 at 23:37:31 +0400, Pavel Volkov wrote: I've browsed through the hot debates here https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/initsystem and the LWN article https://lwn.net/Articles/572805/ But there's no mention about

Re: Deadline for jessie init system choice

2013-12-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2013-12-13 at 16:14 +, Tom H wrote: On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 8:00 PM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Thu 12 Dec 2013 at 23:37:31 +0400, Pavel Volkov wrote: I've browsed through the hot debates here https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/initsystem and the LWN article

Re: Deadline for jessie init system choice

2013-12-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Ralf Mardorf wrote: Tom H wrote: But the earlier in the cycle that a decision is taken, the better. So if I later today set up Debian stable, I better directly drop init and install systemd during installation? No. In Debian Stable today the default is sysvinit and everything has been

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