Re: [systemd-devel] feature request: dlopen

2015-02-23 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 23.02.15 12:41, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton (l...@lkcl.net) wrote: Luke, you are now on moderation. I am sorry, but I don't find what you are writing particularly useful or new. You keep repeating the same untruths, and I'd prefer if we could again focus on technical discussions on the m

Re: [systemd-devel] feature request: dlopen

2015-02-23 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 23.02.2015 um 13:41 schrieb Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton: also misses the larger picture. what the distros do is fait-accomplit driven by the decisions of the upstream developers. what the upstream developers do is fait-accomplit driven by the decisions of their dependencies. everyone has

Re: [systemd-devel] feature request: dlopen

2015-02-23 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 6:17 AM, Martin Pitt wrote: > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton [2015-02-23 2:08 +]: >> the problem, zbigniew, is that the intended use of this "silent noop" >> feature - to make it *possible* to have an alternative PID1 - *hasn't >> happened*. > > It sure has. Debian supp

Re: [systemd-devel] feature request: dlopen

2015-02-23 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 23.02.15 01:37, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton (l...@lkcl.net) wrote: > > Convince the upstream developers > > in question not to link against systemd's libraries, or convince the > > distros not to package it like that. > > well, you could provide hints in the documentation (and force the

Re: [systemd-devel] feature request: dlopen

2015-02-23 Thread Tobias Hunger
Hi Luke, On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 3:08 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > the problem, zbigniew, is that the intended use of this "silent noop" > feature - to make it *possible* to have an alternative PID1 - *hasn't > happened*. any upstream software developer who has added in support > f

Re: [systemd-devel] feature request: dlopen

2015-02-23 Thread Tobias Hunger
Hello Luke, On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 12:58 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >> I understood most of these dependencies to be indirect: Packages that >> depend on other packages that in turn depend on libsystemd. Is that >> correct? > > that's right. so, what that means is that the actual

Re: [systemd-devel] feature request: dlopen

2015-02-23 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 02:08:26AM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > the problem, zbigniew, is that the intended use of this "silent noop" > feature - to make it *possible* to have an alternative PID1 - *hasn't > happened*. any upstream software developer who has added in support > for

Re: [systemd-devel] feature request: dlopen

2015-02-22 Thread Cristian Rodríguez
El 22/02/15 a las 22:37, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton escribió: well, you could provide hints in the documentation (and force them to be read by deliberately changing the API) Wow.. so what you want is even nuttier than I thought.. that would be a good place to start, showing people how t

Re: [systemd-devel] feature request: dlopen

2015-02-22 Thread Cristian Rodríguez
El 22/02/15 a las 23:08, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton escribió: the problem, zbigniew, is that the intended use of this "silent noop" feature - to make it *possible* to have an alternative PID1 - *hasn't happened*. any upstream software developer who has added in support for systemd has done

Re: [systemd-devel] feature request: dlopen

2015-02-22 Thread Martin Pitt
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton [2015-02-23 2:08 +]: > the problem, zbigniew, is that the intended use of this "silent noop" > feature - to make it *possible* to have an alternative PID1 - *hasn't > happened*. It sure has. Debian supports systemd, SysV init, and to a lesser degree OpenRC and up

Re: [systemd-devel] feature request: dlopen

2015-02-22 Thread Shawn Landden
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton < l...@lkcl.net> wrote: > i don't know if you've seen this yet: > > http://news.slashdot.org/story/15/02/15/1959209/removing-libsystemd0-from-a-live-running-debian-system > > my name's luke leighton, i'm a software libre advocate, and

Re: [systemd-devel] feature request: dlopen

2015-02-22 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 12:52 AM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 11:58:25PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >> ...except that its introduction (usually --with-libsystemd) in those >> 100 (or so) packages has been done in a mutually-exclusive, >> hard-comp

Re: [systemd-devel] feature request: dlopen

2015-02-22 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 1:25 AM, Cameron Norman wrote: >>> ...except that its introduction (usually --with-libsystemd) in those >>> 100 (or so) packages has been done in a mutually-exclusive, >>> hard-compile-time switch that *excludes* the possibility of dynamic >>> (runtime) decision-making. >

Re: [systemd-devel] feature request: dlopen

2015-02-22 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 10:00 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Tue, 17.02.15 20:24, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton (l...@lkcl.net) wrote: > >> i note that there was announcement recently that the systemd team >> 'listens to users', so i am taking you at your word on that. > > Hmm, I am not aware

Re: [systemd-devel] feature request: dlopen

2015-02-22 Thread Cameron Norman
On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 4:52 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 11:58:25PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 9:10 AM, Tobias Hunger >> wrote: >> > Hi Luke, >> > >> > I am mostly a lurker on the systemd mailing list, so my opinion

Re: [systemd-devel] feature request: dlopen

2015-02-22 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 11:58:25PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 9:10 AM, Tobias Hunger > wrote: > > Hi Luke, > > > > I am mostly a lurker on the systemd mailing list, so my opinion does > > not carry weight in this community. > > > > On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at

Re: [systemd-devel] feature request: dlopen

2015-02-22 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 9:10 AM, Tobias Hunger wrote: > Hi Luke, > > I am mostly a lurker on the systemd mailing list, so my opinion does > not carry weight in this community. > > On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 9:24 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton > wrote:> so i'm not going to "protest" - i'm going to

Re: [systemd-devel] feature request: dlopen

2015-02-22 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 9:35 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: > There is no such dependency in Debian either [1]. > Luke simply has no idea what he is talking about. > It would be great if Luke did some basic research and educate himself > and not spread such misinformation. michael, greg's approach

Re: [systemd-devel] feature request: dlopen

2015-02-22 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 9:25 PM, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 08:24:37PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >> so i'm not going to "protest" - i'm going to try a different approach. >> i'd like you to look at this list of debian packages that are >> dependent on libsystemd0: >>

Re: [systemd-devel] feature request: dlopen

2015-02-18 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Tue, 17.02.15 20:24, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton (l...@lkcl.net) wrote: > i note that there was announcement recently that the systemd team > 'listens to users', so i am taking you at your word on that. Hmm, I am not aware of such an "announcement". I generally listen though, but I don't alw

Re: [systemd-devel] feature request: dlopen

2015-02-18 Thread Tobias Hunger
Hi Luke, I am mostly a lurker on the systemd mailing list, so my opinion does not carry weight in this community. On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 9:24 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:> so i'm not going to "protest" - i'm going to try a different approach. > i'd like you to look at this list of de

Re: [systemd-devel] feature request: dlopen

2015-02-17 Thread Michael Biebl
2015-02-17 23:14 GMT+01:00 Michael Biebl : > 2015-02-17 22:35 GMT+01:00 Michael Biebl : >> 2015-02-17 22:25 GMT+01:00 Greg KH : >>> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 08:24:37PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton >>> wrote: so i'm not going to "protest" - i'm going to try a different approach. i'd

Re: [systemd-devel] feature request: dlopen

2015-02-17 Thread Michael Biebl
2015-02-17 22:35 GMT+01:00 Michael Biebl : > 2015-02-17 22:25 GMT+01:00 Greg KH : >> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 08:24:37PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >>> so i'm not going to "protest" - i'm going to try a different approach. >>> i'd like you to look at this list of debian packages that

Re: [systemd-devel] feature request: dlopen

2015-02-17 Thread Tom Gundersen
Hi Luke, On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 9:24 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > i note that there was announcement recently that the systemd team > 'listens to users', so i am taking you at your word on that. I believe we are listening a lot. That does not necessarily mean that everyone will ge

Re: [systemd-devel] feature request: dlopen

2015-02-17 Thread Michael Biebl
2015-02-17 22:25 GMT+01:00 Greg KH : > On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 08:24:37PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >> so i'm not going to "protest" - i'm going to try a different approach. >> i'd like you to look at this list of debian packages that are >> dependent on libsystemd0: >> http://lkcl

Re: [systemd-devel] feature request: dlopen

2015-02-17 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 08:24:37PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > so i'm not going to "protest" - i'm going to try a different approach. > i'd like you to look at this list of debian packages that are > dependent on libsystemd0: > http://lkcl.net/reports/removing_systemd_from_debian/l

[systemd-devel] feature request: dlopen

2015-02-17 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
i don't know if you've seen this yet: http://news.slashdot.org/story/15/02/15/1959209/removing-libsystemd0-from-a-live-running-debian-system my name's luke leighton, i'm a software libre advocate, and the first major contribution that i made to software libre was to help bridge the impossible chas