Re: [Dng] [OT] Debian problems with Jesse - was simple backgrounds

2015-03-02 Thread Tor Myklebust
On Mon, 2 Mar 2015, T.J. Duchene wrote: A respectable percentage of today's Linux distribution is a kludge of rapid pre-existing hacks that do not always work well when layered. You have something like adduser or other command utilities written in Perl, which are then called by init scripts,

Re: [Dng] [OT] Debian problems with Jesse - was simple backgrounds

2015-03-02 Thread Tor Myklebust
On Mon, 2 Mar 2015, T.J. Duchene wrote: On 03/01/2015 05:56 PM, Tor Myklebust wrote: The perl-base package pre-depends on libc6 and dpkg. And nothing else. I was not referring to all the software that depends on them when using Debian/Devuan. I've never believed that they make good

Re: [Dng] [OT] Debian problems with Jesse - was simple backgrounds

2015-03-01 Thread Tor Myklebust
On Sun, 1 Mar 2015, T.J. Duchene wrote: On Sun, 2015-03-01 at 21:12 +0100, Philip Lacroix wrote: As other members have already pointed out, this is not a fair comparison. Perhaps. The reasons I made the comparison are: a) All of them have a dependency chain so interwoven and complex that

Re: [Dng] TPM

2014-12-23 Thread Tor Myklebust
On Tue, 23 Dec 2014, Joe Awni wrote: Instead of rehashing nightmare scenarios, id like to invite you into my day-dream: Devuan makes headlines news as the first OS to use a TPM to prevent the installation of any DRM software or any software that does not respect the user's freedoms. That