Re: merged /usr considered harmful

2021-07-17 Thread Geert Stappers
Summary: let go, let go On Sat, Jul 17, 2021 at 09:13:57PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > > And no, I’m not going to embrace every unnecessary change thrown my way. None of us does embraces every unnecessary change. We all choose our battles wisely. > No; usrmerge is broken from the PoV of De

Re: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :(

2021-07-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jul 17, 2021 at 12:49 PM Samuel Henrique wrote: > The Steam Deck is a portable gaming device, running SteamOS, to be > released later this year. ... > SteamOS used to be based on Debian, and Valve seems to have decided to > go with Arch instead (great news for Arch, don't get me wrong). V

Bug#991219: ITP: ruby-kas-grpc -- Auto-generated gRPC client for KAS

2021-07-17 Thread Sruthi Chandran
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sruthi Chandran X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: ruby-kas-grpc Version : 0.0.2 Upstream Author : Gitlab.org * URL : https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cluster-integration/gitlab-agent * License : Exp

Re: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :(

2021-07-17 Thread Thaddeus H. Black
On Sat, Jul 17, 2021 at 01:48:32PM +0100, Samuel Henrique wrote: > SteamOS used to be based on Debian, and Valve seems to have decided to > go with Arch instead (great news for Arch, don't get me wrong). > > The reasons for the switch have not been publicized, but I think we're > safe to assume it

Re: merged /usr considered harmful (was Re: Bits from the Technical Committee)

2021-07-17 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sat, 17 Jul 2021 at 20:34:41 +, Johannes Drexl wrote: > /usr is allowed to be not only on a separate partition, but even on a > network device This has been discussed at considerable length before, but I'll try to recap: A separate or network-mounted /usr is possible in Debian, whether mer

Re: merged /usr considered harmful

2021-07-17 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Johannes Drexl dixit: >embrace getting rid of /sbin and /bin. FHS 3.0 explicitely states that >/usr is allowed to be not only on a separate partition, but even on a >network device shared by other machines: This hasn’t been true on Debian for a while (partially due to the systemd/usrmerge propone

Re: merged /usr considered harmful (was Re: Bits from the Technical Committee)

2021-07-17 Thread Johannes Drexl
Am Freitag, dem 16.07.2021 um 10:09 +0200 schrieb Thomas Goirand: > Merging binaries in /usr and getting rid of /bin and /sbin, at the > end, > WILL be an improvement. Debian cannot be the last distro not doing > the > move, I hope you understand that. > > Also, I'm having a hard time understandin

Re: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :(

2021-07-17 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Sat, 2021-07-17 at 13:48 +0100, Samuel Henrique wrote: > Hello d-devel, > > As some of you already seem, we have very good news for the Linux > gaming community, although somewhat bad for Debian: > https://www.steamdeck.com > > The Steam Deck is a portable gaming device, running SteamOS, to be

Re: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :(

2021-07-17 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Sat, Jul 17, 2021 at 01:48:32PM +0100, Samuel Henrique wrote: > that we don't fulfill the needs of a lot of desktop users It is known, as we don't even provide an official installer ISO that makes their hardware usable. > So here's my wish that someday we can have a Debian semi-rolling > relea

Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :(

2021-07-17 Thread Samuel Henrique
Hello d-devel, As some of you already seem, we have very good news for the Linux gaming community, although somewhat bad for Debian: https://www.steamdeck.com The Steam Deck is a portable gaming device, running SteamOS, to be released later this year. Review video from 2kliksphilip: Valve Steam D