Re: Reframing (was Re: Proposal: Reaffirm our commitment to support portability and multiple implementations)

2019-12-05 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Thu, Dec 05, 2019 at 08:32:28AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > At minimum, "X is the default" means "you will get X if you don't take > any action to avoid doing so". All definitions I can think of seem to > share that baseline. > At something like maximum, "X is the default" could be read

Re: Reframing (was Re: Proposal: Reaffirm our commitment to support portability and multiple implementations)

2019-12-05 Thread The Wanderer
On 2019-12-05 at 04:34, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 02 Dec 2019, Guillem Jover wrote: > >> Reframing - >> >> Why have init systems become such a contentions and toxic issue? I >> mean yeah, it potentially integrates with many parts of the system, >> but we do have other

Re: Reframing (was Re: Proposal: Reaffirm our commitment to support portability and multiple implementations)

2019-12-05 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Mon, 02 Dec 2019, Guillem Jover wrote: > Reframing > - > > Why have init systems become such a contentions and toxic issue? I mean > yeah, it potentially integrates with many parts of the system, but we do > have other components in the distribution with multiple or non-portable >

Re: Reframing

2019-12-03 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 03 Dec 2019 12:54:40 +, Ian Jackson wrote: > I have written this mail To people who seconded Guillem's proposal and > to some people from the thread. I would particularly like to hear > your views. > > I am considering making a formal variant of Guillem's proposal, which, > if

Re: Reframing (was Re: Proposal: Reaffirm our commitment to support portability and multiple implementations)

2019-12-03 Thread Mike Gabriel
Hi Ian, On Di 03 Dez 2019 13:54:40 CET, Ian Jackson wrote: * Should I adopt Guillem's framing as a preamble to my own proposal ? (Should this be a new alternative or a replacement?) * Would Guillem's framing make a good preamble to Dmitry's option ? * Or do the supporters of Guillem's

Re: Reframing

2019-12-03 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Guillem Jover [2019-12-02 22:55]: > The key here, I guess, is that each situation needs to be evaluated > independently Guillem, there's a lot of stuff I agree with you on, both in this email and the proposal you wrote. What I find strange though is that you acknowledge in this email that

Re: Reframing (was Re: Proposal: Reaffirm our commitment to support portability and multiple implementations)

2019-12-02 Thread Russ Allbery
I'm going to make a similar point to Sam's but in a slightly different way that hopefully will help. (Also, I apologize for sounding rather too absolute in my initial response to your proposal. There were better ways of phrasing my concerns.) Guillem Jover writes: > I'm actually not sure how

Re: Reframing (was Re: Proposal: Reaffirm our commitment to support portability and multiple implementations)

2019-12-02 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Guillem" == Guillem Jover writes: Guillem> The key here, I guess, is that each situation needs to be Guillem> evaluated independently, and no magic decision tree will Guillem> ever fix trying to work things out with other people, in Guillem> good faith, and trying to find

Re: Reframing (was Re: Proposal: Reaffirm our commitment to support portability and multiple implementations)

2019-12-02 Thread Marco d'Itri
guil...@debian.org wrote: > * The traditional-only way camp: This group outright rejects things > like systemd, and other similar technologies. Some of this group was > part of Debian in the past, but found a new home in Devuan. People I read all my emails with mutt (which I used to maintain)