[gentoo-dev] Re: Global Systemd USE Flag

2012-08-09 Thread Duncan
Jason A. Donenfeld posted on Thu, 09 Aug 2012 06:33:02 +0200 as excerpted: Redhat is pushing systemd very hard [and] it seems like lots of everything are joining a fast-paced systemd stampede. [I] think the general perception is that without any set of policies to manage the stampede, systemd

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Global Systemd USE Flag

2012-08-09 Thread Michał Górny
On Thu, 9 Aug 2012 06:57:17 + (UTC) Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: So I really expect people to be switching to systemd 2-3 years from now, and that it'll be the gentoo default in 3-5 years, tho openrc will almost certainly be supported in /some/ form, at least comparable to the kde-

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-text/epdfview

2012-08-09 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 08/09/2012 05:55 AM, Peter Stuge wrote: Samuli Suominen wrote: our mupdf package sucks wrt bugs 407805 and 407807 It's pretty clear that the latter is an upstream problem. We should patch it to build shared libs, with or without cooperation from upstream. Will you fix it?

Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions about SystemD and OpenRC

2012-08-09 Thread Luca Barbato
On 08/07/2012 09:00 PM, Olivier Crête wrote: I expect that in the not so long term, systemd will become an essential user-space component of desktop Linux, just like crond, syslog, dbus, udev or glibc. Sharing that code just makes sense, that allows As in completely optional and easily

Re: [gentoo-dev] Global Systemd USE Flag

2012-08-09 Thread Luca Barbato
On 08/08/2012 04:53 PM, Michał Górny wrote: Yes, and please remove all the occurrences of 'GNU' because I don't like it. We have people working on a clang/freebsd gentoo, you might help them and use that. It sort of works fine. For a project Flameeyes replaced most of system using smaller

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-text/epdfview

2012-08-09 Thread Luca Barbato
On 08/07/2012 05:00 AM, hero...@gentoo.org wrote: Hi, Andreas K. Huettel dilfri...@gentoo.org writes: # Andreas K. Huettel dilfri...@gentoo.org (7 Aug 2012) # Many display bugs and compatibility problems, does not build with cups-1.6. # Upstream is dead. There's no real way to support

Re: [gentoo-dev] Global Systemd USE Flag

2012-08-09 Thread Michał Górny
On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 10:48:38 +0200 Luca Barbato lu_z...@gentoo.org wrote: On 08/08/2012 04:53 PM, Michał Górny wrote: Yes, and please remove all the occurrences of 'GNU' because I don't like it. We have people working on a clang/freebsd gentoo, you might help them and use that. It sort

Re: [gentoo-dev] Opinion against /usr merge

2012-08-09 Thread Luca Barbato
On 07/18/2012 08:27 PM, Michał Górny wrote: I don't think we should give more support to building a system from a statically linked rescue suite tool. For people wanting to shave some seconds from their boot openrc using busybox is quite handy and should be used as default IMHO. lu

Re: [gentoo-dev] Global Systemd USE Flag

2012-08-09 Thread Luca Barbato
On 08/09/2012 10:57 AM, Michał Górny wrote: No. I meant to have 'GNU' tools with 'GNU' stripped. Isn't that what the whole discussion is about? Changing names of tools just for someone's liking? No, we are discussing about an upstream merging two unrelated projects assuring users that nothing

Re: [gentoo-dev] Global Systemd USE Flag

2012-08-09 Thread Michał Górny
On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 11:20:52 +0200 Luca Barbato lu_z...@gentoo.org wrote: On 08/09/2012 10:57 AM, Michał Górny wrote: No. I meant to have 'GNU' tools with 'GNU' stripped. Isn't that what the whole discussion is about? Changing names of tools just for someone's liking? No, we are

[gentoo-dev] Re: Global Systemd USE Flag

2012-08-09 Thread Duncan
Michał Górny posted on Thu, 09 Aug 2012 09:24:26 +0200 as excerpted: On Thu, 9 Aug 2012 06:57:17 + (UTC) Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: So I really expect people to be switching to systemd 2-3 years from now, and that it'll be the gentoo default in 3-5 years, tho openrc will almost

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: euscan user dashboard

2012-08-09 Thread Federico fox Scrinzi
On 08/08/2012 21:53, Markos Chandras wrote: Yes I would like to get email notifications every time there is a version bump in the upstream repos. I also would like to receive an email notification once a month listing all the packages that I haven't bumped in portage. So let's say: for every

Re: [gentoo-dev] Global Systemd USE Flag

2012-08-09 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 6:01 AM, Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 11:20:52 +0200 Luca Barbato lu_z...@gentoo.org wrote: Forking udev hadn't been considered mostly just on that premise. So someone should just *finally* fork it, rather than talking about it all the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Opinion against /usr merge

2012-08-09 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 20:27:29 +0200 Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: 3. More support for mdev; e.g. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mdev and (still in beta) https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mdev/Automount_USB The next challenge is custom mdev rules, which should be do-able. I don't think

Re: [gentoo-dev] Global Systemd USE Flag

2012-08-09 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 08/09/2012 12:20 PM, Luca Barbato wrote: On 08/09/2012 10:57 AM, Michał Górny wrote: No. I meant to have 'GNU' tools with 'GNU' stripped. Isn't that what the whole discussion is about? Changing names of tools just for someone's liking? No, we are discussing about an upstream merging two

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Global Systemd USE Flag

2012-08-09 Thread Peter Stuge
Duncan wrote: given that a number of gentoo devs support larger installations of gentoo and aren't likely to be wanting to switch servers, etc, to systemd just because it's there I think that once they've learned systemd, they will want to switch those servers fast. I use it on one sort-of

Re: [gentoo-dev] pid 1 design

2012-08-09 Thread Peter Stuge
Luca Barbato wrote: Repeat after me: having your first process require anything more than libc is stupid and dangerous. Why do you say? And why is libc different from other libraries, say libuuid or libext2fs? I mean: Why allow pid 1 to require libc, it could just be statically linked.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Global Systemd USE Flag

2012-08-09 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 09/08/12 02:57 AM, Duncan wrote: Jason A. Donenfeld posted on Thu, 09 Aug 2012 06:33:02 +0200 as excerpted: Consider... five years ago was 2007. Android hadn't been released yet at this point in 2007 (November, according to the LWN 2007

Re: [gentoo-dev] pid 1 design

2012-08-09 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: Luca Barbato wrote: Repeat after me: having your first process require anything more than libc is stupid and dangerous. Why do you say? And why is libc different from other libraries, say libuuid or libext2fs? I mean: Why

Re: [gentoo-dev] Global Systemd USE Flag

2012-08-09 Thread Luca Barbato
On 08/09/2012 12:01 PM, Michał Górny wrote: On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 11:20:52 +0200 Luca Barbato lu_z...@gentoo.org wrote: On 08/09/2012 10:57 AM, Michał Górny wrote: No. I meant to have 'GNU' tools with 'GNU' stripped. Isn't that what the whole discussion is about? Changing names of tools just

Re: [gentoo-dev] pid 1 design

2012-08-09 Thread Luca Barbato
On 08/09/2012 04:02 PM, Peter Stuge wrote: Luca Barbato wrote: Repeat after me: having your first process require anything more than libc is stupid and dangerous. Why do you say? Because libc supposedly should be stable, other libraries are a bit more prone to radical changes and other

Re: [gentoo-dev] pid 1 design

2012-08-09 Thread Wyatt Epp
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: ...have an init as PID=1 that does nothing but launch systemd and keep it propped up until it gets a signal from systemd. However, that could have issues I'm just not thinking of. I'm not the maintainer, but this method

Re: [gentoo-dev] pid 1 design

2012-08-09 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Wyatt Epp wyatt@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: ...have an init as PID=1 that does nothing but launch systemd and keep it propped up until it gets a signal from systemd. However, that could have issues

Re: [gentoo-dev] pid 1 design

2012-08-09 Thread William Hubbs
On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 05:59:39PM +0200, Luca Barbato wrote: Yet I'm not used to have to reboot after issuing emerge -u world and most of the times I don't have even to restart X... What if sysvinit is updated as part of that emerge -u world? Don't you reboot then? William

Re: [gentoo-dev] pid 1 design

2012-08-09 Thread William Hubbs
Ok folks, I hit the wrong key; this was meant to go to the list. On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 05:59:39PM +0200, Luca Barbato wrote: Yet I'm not used to have to reboot after issuing emerge -u world and most of the times I don't have even to restart X... What if sysvinit is updated during that emerge

Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions about SystemD and OpenRC

2012-08-09 Thread Olivier Crête
On Thu, 2012-08-09 at 10:42 +0200, Luca Barbato wrote: On 08/07/2012 09:00 PM, Olivier Crête wrote: I expect that in the not so long term, systemd will become an essential user-space component of desktop Linux, just like crond, syslog, dbus, udev or glibc. Sharing that code just makes

Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions about SystemD and OpenRC

2012-08-09 Thread William Hubbs
On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 11:12:46AM -0700, Olivier Crête wrote: Most ideas behind systemd are interesting, their current implementation is sometimes completely wrong and given the experience with pulseaudio we all know that they won't change even if you provide code for it. This is

Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions about SystemD and OpenRC

2012-08-09 Thread Olivier Crête
On Thu, 2012-08-09 at 13:31 -0500, William Hubbs wrote: On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 11:12:46AM -0700, Olivier Crête wrote: Most ideas behind systemd are interesting, their current implementation is sometimes completely wrong and given the experience with pulseaudio we all know that they

Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions about SystemD and OpenRC

2012-08-09 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 3:42 AM, Luca Barbato lu_z...@gentoo.org wrote: [snip] Repeat after me: having your first process require anything more than libc is stupid and dangerous. No, it's not. You can (and should) depend on whatever libraries helps to achieve the desired goals. If one of the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions about SystemD and OpenRC

2012-08-09 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 11:12:46 -0700 Olivier Crête tes...@gentoo.org wrote: This is bullshit, if you have good reasoned arguments, Lennart is a very reasonable guy, but if you just say your ideas are shit, you code is terrible, then yes, he'll just ignore you. No no. If you agree with him, he's

Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions about SystemD and OpenRC

2012-08-09 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 1:31 PM, William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 11:12:46AM -0700, Olivier Crête wrote: Most ideas behind systemd are interesting, their current implementation is sometimes completely wrong and given the experience with pulseaudio we all know

Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions about SystemD and OpenRC

2012-08-09 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 9 Aug 2012 13:53:34 -0500 Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: That doesn't say anything about the design of systemd, which is why I use it; not because of the build system. Actually, it's fairly representative of the design of systemd too: it forces you into a particular

Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions about SystemD and OpenRC

2012-08-09 Thread Tomáš Pružina
Not really, Linus has his own web of trust and he don't take stuff from unknown sources, he has his liutennants and every single patch and change must be reviewed by at least two other maintainers below Linus. After all, Linux does not belong to Linus and his branch is by definition of distributed

Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions about SystemD and OpenRC

2012-08-09 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Thu, 9 Aug 2012 13:53:34 -0500 Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: That doesn't say anything about the design of systemd, which is why I use it; not because of the build system. Actually, it's

Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions about SystemD and OpenRC

2012-08-09 Thread Michał Górny
On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 10:42:15 +0200 Luca Barbato lu_z...@gentoo.org wrote: Repeat after me: having your first process require anything more than libc is stupid and dangerous. But you are aware that glibc is probably much, much worse than most of those 'stupid and dangerous' libraries, right?

Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions about SystemD and OpenRC

2012-08-09 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: I agree with Greg Kroah-Hartman: I actually like (and want) a vertically integrated, tightly coupled way of doing things. Well, if you completely agreed with him you wouldn't be running Gentoo (or Debian, or other

Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions about SystemD and OpenRC

2012-08-09 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Olivier Crête tes...@gentoo.org wrote: He has a perfectly reasonable argument that build time is really not something you should be optimising for. Build systems easily become overcomplicated if you try to make everyone happy, you do have to make choices.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions about SystemD and OpenRC

2012-08-09 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 3:42 AM, Luca Barbato lu_z...@gentoo.org wrote: [snip] Repeat after me: having your first process require anything more than libc is stupid and dangerous. No, it's not. You can (and should)

Re: [gentoo-dev] pid 1 design

2012-08-09 Thread Peter Stuge
Rich Freeman wrote: Systemd is a bit more like a shepherd, looking after things for their entire lifecycle. This is a big part of why it is so useful. I threw out init scripts because it was retarded to not monitor long-running processes on servers. Those processes shouldn't fail, but

Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions about SystemD and OpenRC

2012-08-09 Thread Luca Barbato
On 08/09/2012 09:43 PM, Michał Górny wrote: On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 10:42:15 +0200 Luca Barbato lu_z...@gentoo.org wrote: Repeat after me: having your first process require anything more than libc is stupid and dangerous. But you are aware that glibc is probably much, much worse than most of

Re: [gentoo-dev] pid 1 design

2012-08-09 Thread Michał Górny
On Thu, 9 Aug 2012 22:27:37 +0200 Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: Rich Freeman wrote: Systemd is a bit more like a shepherd, looking after things for their entire lifecycle. This is a big part of why it is so useful. I threw out init scripts because it was retarded to not monitor

Re: [gentoo-dev] pid 1 design

2012-08-09 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: On Thu, 9 Aug 2012 22:27:37 +0200 Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: Rich Freeman wrote: [snip] Systemd isn't a like-for-like replacement for traditional inits. It aims to be much more, so this is a bit of an

Re: [gentoo-dev] pid 1 design

2012-08-09 Thread Christopher Head
On Thu, 9 Aug 2012 12:30:54 -0500 William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: Ok folks, I hit the wrong key; this was meant to go to the list. On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 05:59:39PM +0200, Luca Barbato wrote: Yet I'm not used to have to reboot after issuing emerge -u world and most of the times

Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions about SystemD and OpenRC

2012-08-09 Thread Michał Górny
On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 22:30:02 +0200 Luca Barbato lu_z...@gentoo.org wrote: On 08/09/2012 09:43 PM, Michał Górny wrote: On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 10:42:15 +0200 Luca Barbato lu_z...@gentoo.org wrote: Repeat after me: having your first process require anything more than libc is stupid and

Re: [gentoo-dev] pid 1 design

2012-08-09 Thread Michał Górny
On Thu, 9 Aug 2012 16:45:28 -0400 Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: On Thu, 9 Aug 2012 22:27:37 +0200 Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: Rich Freeman wrote: [snip] Systemd isn't a like-for-like replacement

Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions about SystemD and OpenRC

2012-08-09 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: I don't understand you. Greg is a Gentoo developer; he would never propose for Gentoo to disappear. I wasn't suggesting he was saying it should disappear. I think his point was that distros like Gentoo shouldn't be

Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions about SystemD and OpenRC

2012-08-09 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 01:44:25PM -0500, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s wrote On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 3:42 AM, Luca Barbato lu_z...@gentoo.org wrote: Obviously it is always fun seeing people first say accept it or fork it, then do not keep your fork you are wasting time once somebody starts

Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions about SystemD and OpenRC

2012-08-09 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 6:00 PM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 01:44:25PM -0500, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s wrote On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 3:42 AM, Luca Barbato lu_z...@gentoo.org wrote: Obviously it is always fun seeing people first say accept it or fork it, then

Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions about SystemD and OpenRC

2012-08-09 Thread Olivier Crête
On Thu, 2012-08-09 at 19:00 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 01:44:25PM -0500, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s wrote On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 3:42 AM, Luca Barbato lu_z...@gentoo.org wrote: Obviously it is always fun seeing people first say accept it or fork it, then do not keep

Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions about SystemD and OpenRC

2012-08-09 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 7:26 PM, G.Wolfe Woodbury redwo...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/09/2012 07:12 PM, Olivier Crête wrote: Can we also have a desktop that doesn't us X? That is NOT likely to happen. X Windows is about the only *nix windowing system around. There may be others, but their use is

Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions about SystemD and OpenRC

2012-08-09 Thread Peter Stuge
Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: So let people make their OpenRC+mdev systems without systemd, and let people make their systemd+udev systems without OpenRC. Everybody wins. I for one expect nothing less of Gentoo. //Peter

Re: [gentoo-dev] pid 1 design

2012-08-09 Thread heroxbd
Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org writes: Considering that systemd unit files are sometimes shipped with upstream packages, and often they are practically equivalent to openrc init scripts, I'd rather see openrc supporting that file format as an extension and using it instead of duplicating the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions about SystemD and OpenRC

2012-08-09 Thread Sylvain Alain
Yeah me too, and the best solution win then :P 2012/8/9 Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: So let people make their OpenRC+mdev systems without systemd, and let people make their systemd+udev systems without OpenRC. Everybody wins. I for one expect nothing less of

[gentoo-dev] Re: Global Systemd USE Flag

2012-08-09 Thread Duncan
Peter Stuge posted on Thu, 09 Aug 2012 14:29:42 +0200 as excerpted: systemd isn't at all unstable in my experience, the only thing that it is lacking is experience among administrators. FWIW, the unstable I was referring to wasn't necessarily crashing or refusing to do its init job, but

[gentoo-dev] Re: pid 1 design

2012-08-09 Thread Duncan
Luca Barbato posted on Thu, 09 Aug 2012 17:59:39 +0200 as excerpted: Yet I'm not used to have to reboot after issuing emerge -u world and most of the times I don't have even to restart X... I suppose if you just use emerge -u @world, are running stable, and possibly don't care about services

[gentoo-dev] Re: Questions about SystemD and OpenRC

2012-08-09 Thread Duncan
Michał Górny posted on Thu, 09 Aug 2012 22:47:38 +0200 as excerpted: On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 22:30:02 +0200 Luca Barbato lu_z...@gentoo.org wrote: On 08/09/2012 09:43 PM, Michał Górny wrote: On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 10:42:15 +0200 Luca Barbato lu_z...@gentoo.org wrote: [W]e could discuss about

[gentoo-dev] Re: Questions about SystemD and OpenRC

2012-08-09 Thread Duncan
Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn posted on Fri, 10 Aug 2012 01:26:53 +0200 as excerpted: Olivier Crête schrieb: Can we also have a desktop that doesn't use X? Yes, through Wayland or DirectFB. aolMe too!/aol Seriously, they're working on it, ubuntu already has a target switch-to date (tho