Re: [DNG] [OT] donate to Slackware

2018-07-26 Thread spiralofhope
On Thu, 26 Jul 2018 22:46:17 +0200 Jaromil wrote: > https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/donating-to-slackware-4175634729/#post5882751 Thanks for sharing. Six more pages were added while I was reading the thread.. people really care. My roots are from Slackware, and I've

Re: [DNG] the azeri project is underway. education for programming children with devuan

2018-07-26 Thread spiralofhope
On Wed, 25 Jul 2018 21:15:39 +0200 Basati wrote: > I've already named it: azeri (in Basque it means fox, children will > need the skills of a fox for this) Children will GET the skills of a fox with this. :) ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org

Re: [DNG] Provides: libsystemd0 (was Re: systemd and ssh-server)

2018-07-26 Thread spiralofhope
On Thu, 26 Jul 2018 21:49:45 +0900 Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > KatolaZ writes: > > > The medium-term plan is to replace libsystemd0 with a libnosystemd > > ... > > +1, although I'd prefer a more original and playful name ;-) libsystemc =p ___ Dng

Re: [DNG] [OT] donate to Slackware

2018-07-26 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2018 26 Jul 18:14 -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > Bruce, > > It sounds like you have personal contact with him. Do you have for sure > knowledge as to whether the https://www.paypal.me/volkerdi is Patrick's > and funds I put in it would actually go to Patrick? I'm reasonably certain that it is

Re: [DNG] [OT] donate to Slackware

2018-07-26 Thread Don Wright
Not a Bruce, but... Source reference for that address is on page 11 on the LinuxQuestions.org thread quoted by Jaromil below. Here's a direct link. Decide for yourself, or wait for http://www.slackware.com/ to post.

Re: [DNG] I'm not going to respond to messages like that.

2018-07-26 Thread golinux
On 2018-07-26 17:04, Harald Arnesen wrote: Rick Moen [2018-07-26 19:38]: Quoting Basati (bas...@basatu.org): I think there should be a little more respect for Europe's greatest cultural treasure. I hope you understand that I was speaking in _exactly_ that spirit. (In case it wasn't

Re: [DNG] [OT] donate to Slackware

2018-07-26 Thread Steve Litt
Bruce, It sounds like you have personal contact with him. Do you have for sure knowledge as to whether the https://www.paypal.me/volkerdi is Patrick's and funds I put in it would actually go to Patrick? Thanks, SteveT On Thu, 26 Jul 2018 14:11:32 -0700 Bruce Perens wrote: > I offered to

Re: [DNG] systemd and ssh-server

2018-07-26 Thread Dr. Nikolaus Klepp
Am Freitag, 27. Juli 2018 schrieb Dr. Nikolaus Klepp: > Sorry, this may break the thread but I already deleted the original message. > > To make things short: this a minimal "libnosystemd" for sshd on ascii. It > basicly does nothing at all. To be more specific, it does exactly the same > that

Re: [DNG] This is a losing battle, against the propaganda of redhat.

2018-07-26 Thread Harald Arnesen
Steve Litt [2018-07-26 18:44]: > On Thu, 26 Jul 2018 18:00:45 +0200 > Basati wrote: > >> I would like to recall that RedHat is a company of the American >> military complex. With close relations with civil intelligence and >> the military of the United States > > Damn Americans! Every one of

Re: [DNG] systemd and ssh-server

2018-07-26 Thread Dr. Nikolaus Klepp
Sorry, this may break the thread but I already deleted the original message. To make things short: this a minimal "libnosystemd" for sshd on ascii. It basicly does nothing at all. To be more specific, it does exactly the same that libsystemd0 does, which is nothing. Unpack where you like,

Re: [DNG] I'm not going to respond to messages like that.

2018-07-26 Thread Harald Arnesen
Rick Moen [2018-07-26 19:38]: > Quoting Basati (bas...@basatu.org): > >> I think there should be a little more respect for Europe's greatest >> cultural treasure. > > I hope you understand that I was speaking in _exactly_ that spirit. (In > case it wasn't clear, the person of whom I was saying

Re: [DNG] [OT] donate to Slackware

2018-07-26 Thread Bruce Perens
I offered to introduce him to some lawyers. I've certainly made good use of them over the past year. Were it not for good lawyers willing to work cheap or free, I'd be in some hot water right now. Thanks Bruce On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 1:46 PM, Jaromil wrote: > > dear fellow dng'ers > >

[DNG] [OT] donate to Slackware

2018-07-26 Thread Jaromil
dear fellow dng'ers let me bring your attention to this recent and sad message by Patrick Volkerding, founder and maker of Slackware, a distribution we all owe much in many different ways: knowledge, spirit, honesty and minimalism

Re: [DNG] This is a losing battle, against the propaganda of redhat.

2018-07-26 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 11:07:42AM -0700, Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting Steve Litt (sl...@troubleshooters.com): > > > Anyone thinking of dissing a nation on this *technical* list should > > look long and hard at the deficiencies of his/her own country. Let he > > who is without sin cast the first

Re: [DNG] Provides: libsystemd0 (was Re: systemd and ssh-server)

2018-07-26 Thread Daniel Abrecht
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2018-07-26 14:32, info at smallinnovations dot nl wrote: > It would help maintaining packages that depend on systemd too. You > only would have to add some code to use the libnosystemd instead > of libsystemd0. If a libnosystemd package provides

Re: [DNG] systemd and ssh-server

2018-07-26 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Luciano Mannucci (luci...@vespaperitivo.it): > Wasn't there something called uselessd that had this very goal some > time ago? It was promising but died, I don't know why ... The anonymous author felt his initial versions (through 2014's uselessd-8) had successfully made his point --

Re: [DNG] A new article on Devuan (in German)

2018-07-26 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting KatolaZ (kato...@freaknet.org): > Dear D1rs, > > just to point out the nice article written by Michael Plura and > recently published in the German computer magazine "iX": > > https://www.heise.de/select/ix/2018/8/1533453649894916 That is a truly outstanding article. Thank you for

Re: [DNG] Linux Without systemd: Why You Should Use Devuan, the Debian Fork

2018-07-26 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Steve Litt (sl...@troubleshooters.com): > Can I ask all of you something? How do people, who call themselves > developers, joyfully embrace a false choice like systemd vs sysvinit? The same way that the more-vocal djbware fans, and Prof. Bernstein himself, compared qmail _only_ with

Re: [DNG] This is a losing battle, against the propaganda of redhat.

2018-07-26 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Steve Litt (sl...@troubleshooters.com): > Anyone thinking of dissing a nation on this *technical* list should > look long and hard at the deficiencies of his/her own country. Let he > who is without sin cast the first stone. Careful. Those Icelanders have plenty of hard rocks, and some

[DNG] Thunar issue (was: Re: New user of Devuan)

2018-07-26 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 07/25/2018 12:27 PM, aitor_czr wrote: By the way, I have also noticed here that inserting a CD/DVD in this Devuan installation does not mount the medium automatically, neither it opens a file manager. How to make it the same way as it does in Ubuntu/Debian? Tnx. It seems to me that this

Re: [DNG] systemd and ssh-server

2018-07-26 Thread Irrwahn
Steve Litt wrote on 26.07.2018 18:17: > On Thu, 26 Jul 2018 13:17:21 +0200 > Irrwahn wrote: >> What's more, I'd >> go even further and say I wouldn't mind at all if every daemon >> package came with support for all init systems in current use >> (rc-style sysv|openrc, runit, ... , systemd), as

Re: [DNG] I'm not going to respond to messages like that.

2018-07-26 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Basati (bas...@basatu.org): > I think there should be a little more respect for Europe's greatest > cultural treasure. I hope you understand that I was speaking in _exactly_ that spirit. (In case it wasn't clear, the person of whom I was saying 'Someone is a bit provincial' was very

Re: [DNG] This is a losing battle, against the propaganda of redhat.

2018-07-26 Thread Эльбрус Кондратьев
On Thu, 2018-07-26 at 18:10 +0200, info at smallinnovations dot nl wrote: > On 26-07-18 18:00, Basati wrote: > > I would like to recall that RedHat is a company of the American military > > complex. With close relations with civil intelligence and the military of > > the > > United States > > >

Re: [DNG] This is a losing battle, against the propaganda of redhat.

2018-07-26 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 26 Jul 2018 18:00:45 +0200 Basati wrote: > I would like to recall that RedHat is a company of the American > military complex. With close relations with civil intelligence and > the military of the United States Damn Americans! Every one of them voted for Trump, owns ten semiautomatic

Re: [DNG] Provides: libsystemd0 (was Re: systemd and ssh-server)

2018-07-26 Thread info at smallinnovations dot nl
On 26-07-18 18:21, Steve Litt wrote: > On Thu, 26 Jul 2018 16:13:41 +0200 > info at smallinnovations dot nl wrote: > >> No it would not, it will offer developers who want to use some systemd >> API call in their development the opportunity to do so for nosystemd >> systems too. > Eu!

Re: [DNG] Provides: libsystemd0 (was Re: systemd and ssh-server)

2018-07-26 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 26 Jul 2018 16:13:41 +0200 info at smallinnovations dot nl wrote: > No it would not, it will offer developers who want to use some systemd > API call in their development the opportunity to do so for nosystemd > systems too. Eu! What makes you different from the devs at

Re: [DNG] systemd and ssh-server

2018-07-26 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 26 Jul 2018 13:17:21 +0200 Irrwahn wrote: > Hendrik Boom wrote on 26.07.2018 12:35: > > On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 06:50:43PM +0200, Irrwahn wrote: > >> Hendrik Boom wrote on 25.07.2018 17:59: > >> [cut] > >>> Package dependencies are of the form > >>> Install X if Y is installed >

Re: [DNG] This is a losing battle, against the propaganda of redhat.

2018-07-26 Thread info at smallinnovations dot nl
On 26-07-18 18:00, Basati wrote: > I would like to recall that RedHat is a company of the American military > complex. With close relations with civil intelligence and the military of the > United States > > I acknowledge that I used this argument with the DGN trap prior to the fork. > > My

[DNG] I'm not going to respond to messages like that.

2018-07-26 Thread Basati
El miércoles, 25 de julio de 2018 21:21:39 (CEST) Rick Moen escribió: > Quoting Basati (bas...@basatu.org): > > But what do you think about this? > > Personally, I think: Nola esaten da 'someone is a bit provincial' > euskaraz? ;-> > > Ongi etorri. Pozten naiz zu ezagutzeaz. (Ez dakit

[DNG] This is a losing battle, against the propaganda of redhat.

2018-07-26 Thread Basati
I would like to recall that RedHat is a company of the American military complex. With close relations with civil intelligence and the military of the United States I acknowledge that I used this argument with the DGN trap prior to the fork. My opinion has not changed systemd is a troll horse

Re: [DNG] Linux Without systemd: Why You Should Use Devuan, the Debian Fork

2018-07-26 Thread Dr. Nikolaus Klepp
Am Donnerstag, 26. Juli 2018 schrieb Steve Litt: > [...] > Can I ask all of you something? How do people, who call themselves > developers, joyfully embrace a false choice like systemd vs sysvinit? > Do these same "developers" neglect to put in error handling for a bad > value, because the program

Re: [DNG] Linux Without systemd: Why You Should Use Devuan, the Debian Fork

2018-07-26 Thread Antony Stone
On Thursday 26 July 2018 at 17:16:56, Эльбрус Кондратьев wrote: > It's called 'herd behavior'. Someone told them that systemd constituted > 'the way to go'. Nevermind if that way results irrational. Oh well, at least it wasn't Hurd behaviour, otherwise we wouldn't have an Operating System at

Re: [DNG] systemd and ssh-server

2018-07-26 Thread Luciano Mannucci
On Thu, 26 Jul 2018 16:45:29 +0200 info at smallinnovations dot nl wrote: > systemd is in principle > nothing new in functionality but provides an uniform API for some > information you otherwise have to program yourself. We can serve them > the same information without serving systemd this way.

Re: [DNG] Linux Without systemd: Why You Should Use Devuan, the Debian Fork

2018-07-26 Thread Эльбрус Кондратьев
It's called 'herd behavior'. Someone told them that systemd constituted 'the way to go'. Nevermind if that way results irrational. Regards On Thu, 2018-07-26 at 10:49 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Thu, 26 Jul 2018 07:13:52 -0400 > Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > I found this article online. > > > >

Re: [DNG] Linux Without systemd: Why You Should Use Devuan, the Debian Fork

2018-07-26 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 26 Jul 2018 07:13:52 -0400 Hendrik Boom wrote: > I found this article online. > > https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/debian-without-systemd-devuan/ I could have swapped the phrase "s6 plus s6-rc" for "systemd" and that entire video would have been true except the part that says if you're

Re: [DNG] systemd and ssh-server

2018-07-26 Thread info at smallinnovations dot nl
On 26-07-18 16:34, Steve Litt wrote: > On Thu, 26 Jul 2018 12:45:53 +0200 > info at smallinnovations dot nl wrote: >> >> Of course does the libsystemd API not provide it, but we can. First >> call to libsystemd API == systemd installed? If no, call to >> libnosystemd API which init system ==

Re: [DNG] systemd and ssh-server

2018-07-26 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 26 Jul 2018 12:45:53 +0200 info at smallinnovations dot nl wrote: > On 26-07-18 12:15, KatolaZ wrote: > > > > The libsystemd API does not provide any way to check *which* init > > system is running (ehm...for "obvious" reasons, right?). But we > > could put in place a mechanism that

Re: [DNG] systemd and ssh-server

2018-07-26 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 26 Jul 2018 12:15:13 +0200 KatolaZ wrote: > This would in principle allow people to "catch" systemd-related events > and "translate" them to events for any other init system, using a > simple mechanism. Sounds like a great idea. The daemon phones home to what it thinks is systemd to

Re: [DNG] Provides: libsystemd0 (was Re: systemd and ssh-server)

2018-07-26 Thread KatolaZ
On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 04:13:41PM +0200, info at smallinnovations dot nl wrote: [cut] > > But that would entail forking and patching all the packages which use > > libsystemd to force them to check if systemd is available... which is > > exactly what we are trying to avoid by nooping

Re: [DNG] Provides: libsystemd0 (was Re: systemd and ssh-server)

2018-07-26 Thread info at smallinnovations dot nl
On 26-07-18 14:05, KatolaZ wrote: >> Of course does the libsystemd API not provide it, but we can. First call >> to libsystemd API == systemd installed? If no, call to libnosystemd API >> which init system == installed? Or something like that. But put in place >> a mechanism that allows to shell

Re: [DNG] systemd and ssh-server

2018-07-26 Thread Klaus Ethgen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Am Do den 26. Jul 2018 um 14:23 schrieb Lars Noodén: > Looking at the DSC files, it seems that the culprit is either gnome or > ssh-askpass-gnome or both. > > Is there an alternative ssh-askpass-* graphical utility likely to be > more portable

Re: [DNG] systemd and ssh-server

2018-07-26 Thread Lars Noodén
On 07/26/2018 04:01 PM, Klaus Ethgen wrote:> Hi, > > Am Mo den 23. Jul 2018 um 14:24 schrieb Rolf Schmidt: >> I would ask, if it is true, that the openssh-server still needs >> libsystemd0 in ascii? > >> Can I expect e fix? > > If you trust me ( :-D ) you can use my package[0].[snip] Looking at

Re: [DNG] systemd and ssh-server

2018-07-26 Thread Klaus Ethgen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi, Am Mo den 23. Jul 2018 um 14:24 schrieb Rolf Schmidt: > I would ask, if it is true, that the openssh-server still needs > libsystemd0 in ascii? > > Can I expect e fix? If you trust me ( :-D ) you can use my package[0]. It is the debian

Re: [DNG] Provides: libsystemd0 (was Re: systemd and ssh-server)

2018-07-26 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Hi, Minor correction in-lined below. Olaf Meeuwissen writes: > Hi, > > KatolaZ writes: > >> The medium-term plan is to replace libsystemd0 with a libnosystemd >> which Provides: libsystemd0 and noops everything, with the possibility >> of shelling-out some actions, if the admin wants so. We

Re: [DNG] systemd and ssh-server

2018-07-26 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Hi, KatolaZ writes: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 12:45:53PM +0200, info at smallinnovations dot nl > wrote: >> On 26-07-18 12:15, KatolaZ wrote: >> > >> > The libsystemd API does not provide any way to check *which* init >> > system is running (ehm...for "obvious" reasons, right?). But we could >>

[DNG] Provides: libsystemd0 (was Re: systemd and ssh-server)

2018-07-26 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Hi, KatolaZ writes: > The medium-term plan is to replace libsystemd0 with a libnosystemd > which Provides: libsystemd0 and noops everything, with the possibility > of shelling-out some actions, if the admin wants so. We will get > there. +1, although I'd prefer a more original and playful name

Re: [DNG] systemd and ssh-server

2018-07-26 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Hi, Joel Roth writes: > Katolaz wrote on March 2, 2018: > >> leloft wrote: > >> >> I issued $locate systemd >> and got 200 lines of output, including >> /etc/systemd/system/* (23 files) >> /lib/systemd/system/* (60 files) >> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsystemd.so.0 (and 0.17.0) >> /usr/lib/systemd

Re: [DNG] systemd and ssh-server

2018-07-26 Thread KatolaZ
On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 12:45:53PM +0200, info at smallinnovations dot nl wrote: > On 26-07-18 12:15, KatolaZ wrote: > > > > The libsystemd API does not provide any way to check *which* init > > system is running (ehm...for "obvious" reasons, right?). But we could > > put in place a mechanism that

Re: [DNG] A new article on Devuan (in German)

2018-07-26 Thread Irrwahn
KatolaZ wrote on 26.07.2018 12:03: > Dear D1rs, > > just to point out the nice article written by Michael Plura and > recently published in the German computer magazine "iX": > > https://www.heise.de/select/ix/2018/8/1533453649894916 That was a pleasant read, thanks for the link! I hope we'll

Re: [DNG] systemd and ssh-server

2018-07-26 Thread Irrwahn
Hendrik Boom wrote on 26.07.2018 12:35: > On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 06:50:43PM +0200, Irrwahn wrote: >> Hendrik Boom wrote on 25.07.2018 17:59: >> [cut] >>> Package dependencies are of the form >>> Install X if Y is installed >>> Too bad it doesn't handle >>> Install X it Y and Z are

[DNG] Linux Without systemd: Why You Should Use Devuan, the Debian Fork

2018-07-26 Thread Hendrik Boom
I found this article online. https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/debian-without-systemd-devuan/ It doesn't really get into the problems with systemd, unfortunately. -- hendrik ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org

Re: [DNG] systemd and ssh-server

2018-07-26 Thread info at smallinnovations dot nl
On 26-07-18 12:15, KatolaZ wrote: > > The libsystemd API does not provide any way to check *which* init > system is running (ehm...for "obvious" reasons, right?). But we could > put in place a mechanism that allows to shell out the calls to > libsystemd functions to a set of scripts with

Re: [DNG] systemd and ssh-server

2018-07-26 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 06:50:43PM +0200, Irrwahn wrote: > Hendrik Boom wrote on 25.07.2018 17:59: > [cut] > > Package dependencies are of the form > > Install X if Y is installed > > Too bad it doesn't handle > > Install X it Y and Z are installed. > > I suspect, though, we don't wand to

Re: [DNG] systemd and ssh-server

2018-07-26 Thread KatolaZ
On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 12:01:54PM +0200, info at smallinnovations dot nl wrote: > On 26-07-18 10:00, KatolaZ wrote: > > > > The main problem is that those packages need to be maintained, and not > > just stripped of the libsystemd0 dependency once, and then forgotten, > > which is what happened

[DNG] A new article on Devuan (in German)

2018-07-26 Thread KatolaZ
Dear D1rs, just to point out the nice article written by Michael Plura and recently published in the German computer magazine "iX": https://www.heise.de/select/ix/2018/8/1533453649894916 HND KatolaZ -- [ ~.,_ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ - Devuan -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ "+. katolaz

Re: [DNG] systemd and ssh-server

2018-07-26 Thread info at smallinnovations dot nl
On 26-07-18 10:00, KatolaZ wrote: > > The main problem is that those packages need to be maintained, and not > just stripped of the libsystemd0 dependency once, and then forgotten, > which is what happened with most of the Jessie packages that were > forked for that reason. > > The medium-term

Re: [DNG] systemd and ssh-server

2018-07-26 Thread Irrwahn
Simon Hobson wrote on 25.07.2018 23:25: > KatolaZ wrote: > >> Replace 'links2' with 'openssh-server' and 'libfbdirect' with >> 'libsystemd0', and you should see what I mean. Most of the De??an >> installations actually have tons of libraries that are never used, or >> are just used to probe for

Re: [DNG] systemd and ssh-server

2018-07-26 Thread KatolaZ
On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 10:25:32PM +0100, Simon Hobson wrote: > KatolaZ wrote: > > > Replace 'links2' with 'openssh-server' and 'libfbdirect' with > > 'libsystemd0', and you should see what I mean. Most of the De??an > > installations actually have tons of libraries that are never used, or > >