Re: Why focus on systemd?

2014-11-26 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le lundi, 24 novembre 2014, 08.02:44 Marty a écrit : On 11/24/2014 02:14 AM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: Le dimanche, 23 novembre 2014, 18.09:58 Marty a écrit : Did I miss something? Yes. Option 1: init policy stands *won by default* [1] Option 2: change init policy *LOST

Re: Why focus on systemd?

2014-11-26 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mercredi, 26 novembre 2014, 09.21:00 The Wanderer a écrit : On 11/26/2014 at 08:50 AM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: Le lundi, 24 novembre 2014, 08.02:44 Marty a écrit : On 11/24/2014 02:14 AM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: The vote invoked a clause in the TC init decision to allow

Re: Why focus on systemd?

2014-11-23 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le dimanche, 23 novembre 2014, 18.09:58 Marty a écrit : Did I miss something? Yes. Option 1: init policy stands *won by default* [1] Option 2: change init policy *LOST* Option 3: ask nicely to follow init policy *lost* Option 4: policy stands, no statement needed *WON* Option 5: null

Re: systemd-free alternatives are not off topic.

2014-11-23 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le dimanche, 23 novembre 2014, 21.20:52 Jerry Stuckle a écrit : On 11/23/2014 8:42 PM, Ric Moore wrote: On 11/23/2014 12:17 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: That is the huge majority of Debian users. Some will get a rude surprise when they upgrade and things don't work as expected. Like

Re: the developers have spoken

2014-11-19 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mercredi, 19 novembre 2014, 15.47:43 Raffaele Morelli a écrit : https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2014/11/msg00014.html The winners are: Option 4 General Resolution is not required For which the complete text [0] is: The Debian project asks its members to be

Re: init scripts [was: If Not Systemd, then What?]

2014-11-18 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le dimanche, 16 novembre 2014, 11.50:25 Miles Fidelman a écrit : Given all the talk about not being able to influence upstream, it occurred to me to actually take a look at which of the major applications I rely on actually come with native systemd service scripts. Let's take the inverse

Re: init scripts [was: If Not Systemd, then What?]

2014-11-18 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mardi, 18 novembre 2014, 22.10:22 Miles Fidelman a écrit : Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: Let's take the inverse view: which of these use the upstream sysvinit scripts directly ? The answer, as demonstrated below, is: none. Out of curiosity, how are you comparing these to the init

Re: Why focus on systemd?

2014-11-16 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le dimanche, 16 novembre 2014, 16.36:42 Peter Nieman a écrit : Preventing the systemd takeover is certainly important, but it won't be enough to reverse the trend, I fear. None of the talking on debian-user about meta, conceptual or generic systemd issues will allow a systemd takeover in

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-13 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le jeudi, 13 novembre 2014, 09.04:50 Tanstaafl a écrit : It should have been made mandatory that the systemd folks get this bug fully resolved and functional *on wheezy* This is simply not how Debian works; stable is meant to stay stable. *and* commit to maintaining this ability in jessie, as

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-12 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mercredi, 12 novembre 2014, 09.11:40 Tanstaafl a écrit : Which is precisely *why* (people) should have been required to fix that bug (…) This is simply not how Debian works. OdyX -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-12 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mercredi, 12 novembre 2014, 10.17:54 Miles Fidelman a écrit : Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: Le mercredi, 12 novembre 2014, 09.11:40 Tanstaafl a écrit : Which is precisely *why* (people) should have been required to fix that bug (…) This is simply not how Debian works. You mean

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-12 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mercredi, 12 novembre 2014, 10.33:20 Tanstaafl a écrit : On 11/12/2014 10:13 AM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud o...@debian.org wrote: Le mercredi, 12 novembre 2014, 09.11:40 Tanstaafl a écrit : Which is precisely *why* (people) should have been required to fix that bug (…) This is simply

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-12 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mercredi, 12 novembre 2014, 20.10:42 Brian a écrit : Sounds like, doesn't it? Let's be practical and see how how a screen in d-i could present an init system choice to a user, particularly having a new user in mind. For what is worth, the layout of the menu is not the problem here. Cheers,

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-11 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mardi, 11 novembre 2014, 20.08:08 st a écrit : Hans wrote: I just wanted to show ways, where EVERYONE might be happy Sure. Sure. Everybody who has invested years into learning Debian is just jumping of joy now that it is suddenly turned into a completely different OS _and_ they have to

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-11 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mardi, 11 novembre 2014, 12.34:10 Miles Fidelman a écrit : Laurent Bigonville wrote: There are no functional differences between an installation with sysvinit-core out of the box or an install where sysvinit-core is installed later, this is a fact. No, that's NOT a fact. At least

Re: Debian-Live 7.6.0 usb username password?

2014-11-07 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le vendredi, 7 novembre 2014, 09.06:04 Lisi Reisz a écrit : Quite. And it may have been an x/y question. But the question was how to get in from the log-in screen. I must download and burn a live Debian CD in order to find out!! Given a working virtualization setup (KVM, Qemu,

Re: forks, derivatives, other distros - what are you thinking/doing

2014-11-06 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mercredi, 5 novembre 2014, 11.45:55 Haines Brown a écrit : This seems to me an entirely legitimate issue for the debian-user group, for it concerns whether Debian will continue to be useful in relation to the needs and values of its average user. debian-user is not a group of subscribers

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-05 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mercredi, 5 novembre 2014, 09.21:26 Jerry Stuckle a écrit : On 11/5/2014 2:37 AM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: Discussions about possible forks are off-topic on debian-user, please re-read the list topic: From https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ : Community assistance and support

Re: forks, derivatives, other distros - what are you thinking/doing

2014-11-05 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Miles, Le mercredi, 5 novembre 2014, 09.32:57 Miles Fidelman a écrit : [If you're happy with systemd, and not considering a change - please stay out of this discussion. If you object to the very nature of the discussion, hit your delete key and kill file this thread now.] I object to the

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-04 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mardi, 4 novembre 2014, 17.13:05 Miles Fidelman a écrit : Personally, the more this drags on, the more I'm convinced that those of us who deploy and manage servers would really benefit from a fork that retains the flavor and philosophy of pre-systemd (and maybe pre-udev) Debian. Just. Do.

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-04 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mardi, 4 novembre 2014, 21.13:36 Jerry Stuckle a écrit : Yes, but you seem to want to stifle any discussion of a possible fork. Discussions about possible forks are off-topic on debian-user, please re-read the list topic: From https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ : Community assistance

Re: LZ4 decompression on Boot

2014-10-29 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Hi Andre, Le mercredi, 29 octobre 2014, 11.43:18 Andre Massena a écrit : I was not aware that Grub played a role in decompressing a kernal at boot as that is a kernel function. (…) Le mercredi, 29 octobre 2014, 13.21:37 Andre Massena a écrit : No takers here? (…) Le mercredi, 29 octobre

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
I really don't buy the argument that the GR proposal was too quiet to be noticed by 6+ people. I mean: the proposition happened to be in the middle of the post-TC decision wave, on the mailing lists where it belonged. The people who cared about the whole default init for Debian question _were_

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le lundi, 13 octobre 2014, 12.23:00 Miles Fidelman a écrit : Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: I really don't buy the argument that the GR proposal was too quiet to be noticed by 6+ people. Actually - I'd contest that, for four reasons: - as I've previously noted - the major impacts