Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-22 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 03:05:50AM +, Darren Salt wrote: > [snip] > > Even the claims of the Gentoo people about the separate /usr partition > > are unjustified [4]. > > > [4] http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken > > From that page: > > “There is no way to reli

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-22 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that John Paul Adrian Glaubitz may or may not have written... [snip] > Even the claims of the Gentoo people about the separate /usr partition > are unjustified [4]. > [4] http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken From that page: “There is no way to reliably br

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-22 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Kevin Toppins may or may not have written... > On 19 November 2012 04:23, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > wrote: [snip] >> And thirdly, if you have very large file systems (we have a 30TB hardware >> raid here, for example), filesystem checks can take forever. If you >> reboot such a se

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-22 Thread Andrej N. Gritsenko
Hello! Gergely Nagy has written on Thursday, 22 November, at 0:05: >If you read my mail further, your question is answered there. But I'll >repeat it, for good measures: no, it does not mean that. I only means >that your syslogd of choice is getting its input from >/run/systemd/journal/syslog

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-21 Thread Gergely Nagy
"Andrej N. Gritsenko" writes: > Hello! > > Gergely Nagy has written on Wednesday, 21 November, at 10:29: >>Matthias Klumpp writes: > >>> For syslogd, systemd provides journald for those who want to use it, >>> but the Journal is no dependency of systemd. > >>Wrong. You can't have any recent

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-21 Thread Matthias Klumpp
2012/11/21 Andrej N. Gritsenko : > Hello! > > Gergely Nagy has written on Wednesday, 21 November, at 10:29: >>Matthias Klumpp writes: > >>> For syslogd, systemd provides journald for those who want to use it, >>> but the Journal is no dependency of systemd. >>Wrong. You can't have any recent s

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-21 Thread Andrej N. Gritsenko
Hello! Gergely Nagy has written on Wednesday, 21 November, at 10:29: >Matthias Klumpp writes: >> For syslogd, systemd provides journald for those who want to use it, >> but the Journal is no dependency of systemd. >Wrong. You can't have any recent systemd without the Journal, and >'legacy'

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-21 Thread Gergely Nagy
Matthias Klumpp writes: > For syslogd, systemd provides journald for those who want to use it, > but the Journal is no dependency of systemd. Wrong. You can't have any recent systemd without the Journal, and 'legacy' syslogds are piggybacking on /run/systemd/journal/syslog, where the journal for

systemd (was Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev)

2012-11-21 Thread Jon Dowland
Hi - please change the Subject: of the thread if the topic of conversation has moved on. (We're all guilty of not doing this enough…) On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:07:29AM -0600, Kevin Toppins wrote: snip 32 line preamble I realise your intentions are good, here, but please, it is not much help. Wri

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-20 Thread Kevin Toppins
> Me too, please read: > http://catb.org/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Oh crap, my apologies. I honestly forgot that the reply was still at the bottom of my email. I did not intentionally leave it there. It certainly wasn't some passive-aggressive kind of post-reply, I do apologize for it being t

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-20 Thread Matthias Klumpp
Hi! 2012/11/20 Marc Haber : > On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 10:13:28 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: >>[...] > Aren't the systemd makers trying hard to move existing functionality > from udev, consolekit, policykit and syslogd into systemd, effectively > making those unavailable for non-Linux? No, not really... Co

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-20 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 10:13:28 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: >There is no reason for kFreeBSD and Hurd to stop Debian's Linux ports >from using systemd or upstart by default once wheezy is released. We >can keep sysvinit/openrc/busybox init/etc for kFreeBSD, Hurd and users >who need or prefer them. Aren'

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-20 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 01:25:38PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > "The core components are always built (which includes systemd itself, as > well as udevd and journald). > > For some uses the configure switches do not provide sufficient modularity. > For example, they cannot be used to bu

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 01:20:42PM -0600, Kevin Toppins wrote: > I do not want to fight with you. > > I do not want to silence you. > > I do not want to _force_ you to think a certain way. But I would be > pleased if you would be willing to try a different way of thinking. Me too, please read: h

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 4:01 AM, Marc Haber wrote: > How many non-Linux platforms does Arch Linux (sic!) support? Looks like just Hurd: http://www.archhurd.org/ It seems that they are talking about Arch BSD too: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=142679 > I know of two non-Linux platfor

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-19 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 15:04:35 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >One of the Arch developers actually made a couple of good points why >they switched to systemd as default [1]. How many non-Linux platforms does Arch Linux (sic!) support? I know of two non-Linux platforms that Debian prides i

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-19 Thread Matthias Klumpp
Ehmm... --> If you want to reduce the build time dependencies (though only dbus and libcap are needed as build time deps) and you know the specific component you are interested in doesn't need it, then create a dummy .pc file for that dependency (i.e. basically empty), and configure systemd wit

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-19 Thread Kevin Toppins
I do not want to fight with you. I do not want to silence you. I do not want to _force_ you to think a certain way. But I would be pleased if you would be willing to try a different way of thinking. I do not want to detract from the focus of the original post of this thread. Meaning I would just

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 12:48:24PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 12:42:24PM +0100, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > > Also, the people who write udev and systemd really know what they are > > doing, and especially systemd is documented perfectly well - everyone > > who d

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-19 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 12:42:24PM +0100, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > Also, the people who write udev and systemd really know what they are > doing, and especially systemd is documented perfectly well - everyone > who does not feel comfortable with systemd should read at least the > basic docs. (and t

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-19 Thread Matthias Klumpp
Also, the people who write udev and systemd really know what they are doing, and especially systemd is documented perfectly well - everyone who does not feel comfortable with systemd should read at least the basic docs. (and then think again, and then probably dislike it on a basis of facts) Also,

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-19 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello Kevin, On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 09:51:22PM -0600, Kevin Toppins wrote: > Just because something is very old, does not necessarily make it > wrong, obsolete, or require that it be changed. Correct. But on the other hand, just because something is 40 years old, doesn't mean we're not allowed t

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-16 Thread Luke Leighton
Roger Leigh codelibre.net> writes: > If you want a reliable system, you need a reliable PID 1. yes. this was i believe why richard lightman implemented depinit in i think it was under 1,000 lines of code. he was delighted when i came up with a simple modification which would allow him to remov

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-16 Thread Michael Biebl
On 17.11.2012 03:43, Russell Coker wrote: > On Sat, 17 Nov 2012, Paul Wise wrote: >>> Maybe systemd is faster, but i think being unable to do a normal reboot >>> is an important drawback. >> >> systemd reboots just fine. It also kills all processes just like sysvinit >> does. > > I have also had

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-16 Thread Russell Coker
On Sat, 17 Nov 2012, Paul Wise wrote: > > Maybe systemd is faster, but i think being unable to do a normal reboot > > is an important drawback. > > systemd reboots just fine. It also kills all processes just like sysvinit > does. I have also had problems with systemd not rebooting as fast as sys

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-16 Thread David Baird
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 3:37 AM, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Thomas Goirand [2012.11.14.0412 +0100]: > > As Gentoo guys and some major kernel people are protesting about the > > insanity Kay and Lennart have done to udev, > > I cannot help but notice that Kay and Lennart were both > Gen

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-16 Thread Salvo Tomaselli
> systemd reboots just fine. It also kills all processes just like sysvinit > does. Some help in "how to find the cause" would be much more appreciated and useful than: "it's not happening, you were just dreaming that". -- Salvo Tomaselli -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@list

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 7:22 AM, Salvo Tomaselli wrote: > >> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=661239 >> >> Hmm, that doesn't look like a valid bug report to me. Especially I >> don't see why dhclient would be able to disrupt systemd in such a way >> that you'd need to do a hard re

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-16 Thread Salvo Tomaselli
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=661239 > > Hmm, that doesn't look like a valid bug report to me. Especially I > don't see why dhclient would be able to disrupt systemd in such a way > that you'd need to do a hard reboot. I don't see why either (that makes it a bug and not a

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-16 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Salvo Tomaselli wrote: > On Thursday 15 November 2012 00.57.50 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> People are constantly insisting that systemd is too bloated or unreliable, >> but yet no one has really come up with real examples to prove that. > > Hum, actually wh

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-16 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 11:45:45PM +0100, Salvo Tomaselli wrote: > On Thursday 15 November 2012 00.57.50 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > People are constantly insisting that systemd is too bloated or unreliable, > > but yet no one has really come up with real examples to prove that. > > Hum,

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-16 Thread Salvo Tomaselli
On Thursday 15 November 2012 00.57.50 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > People are constantly insisting that systemd is too bloated or unreliable, > but yet no one has really come up with real examples to prove that. Hum, actually when i tried it, i couldn't halt or reboot my machine without an

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-16 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: > > BTW, if systemd is a good design, why does it rely so heavily on > socket-based activation, which has fundamentally unmaintainable security? Please excuse the intrusion of a mere user, but I haven't heard that one yet, can you elaborate?

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-15 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Steve Langasek writes: > Aside from libc, upstart has only two external library dependencies (three > in trunk), dbus and nih: > > $ objdump -p /sbin/init | grep NEEDED > NEEDED libnih.so.1 > NEEDED libnih-dbus.so.1 > NEEDED libdbus-1.so.3 > NEEDED

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-15 Thread Guillem Jover
On Thu, 2012-11-15 at 16:32:41 +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > On 15/11/2012 16:11, Guillem Jover wrote: > > TBH, I'd not trust my system to *any* critical service that uses dbus, > > AFAIK it still asserts on error conditions (including non-programmer > > errors). Whenever I've had to code a critic

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-15 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Roger Leigh > So if the init process receives a signal like a SIGSEGV due to > tripping over a bad pointer, your system will die immediately. No, it does not. With init, you can catch it and continue. In the case of systemd, it dumps core (if possible) and then freezes itself so it stops do

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-15 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 15/11/2012 16:11, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 15:23:51 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 04:05:12PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: >>> If you want a reliable system, you need a reliable PID 1. Putting >>> additional complexity into PID1 increases the likelihood

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-15 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 15/11/2012 16:14, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > It has problems, yes. But it's been able to boot billions of machines > for several decades. That can't mean it's not good. Things that aren't > good can't manage to do such things. Oh sure, it isn't bad, it just isn't good enough. I don't think machin

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 03:37:21PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 09:20:05AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > > But why is a 30-year-old concept necessarily worse than a new one? Or to > > put it > > another way, why is it necessary to "bring Linux forward", in cases

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-15 Thread Guillem Jover
On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 15:23:51 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 04:05:12PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > > If you want a reliable system, you need a reliable PID 1. Putting > > additional complexity into PID1 increases the likelihood that a > > bug will bring down your *entire

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-14 Thread Oleg
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 12:57:50AM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > Some things must be as simple as possible even today. > > Care to elaborate why? To save memory on an 8 GB workstation? Even the 25 US$ > Raspberry Pi has enough power for systemd. This is obvious. For security and

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2012-11-15 at 11:37 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 11/15/2012 10:07 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 01:11:32AM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > > [...] > >> So systems which put additional logic in PID 1 are going to increase > >> the probability of bugs being present, an

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-14 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 11/15/2012 07:57 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On Nov 14, 2012, at 6:43 PM, lego12...@yandex.ru wrote: > >>> Modern computer systems are much more versatile and complex than they were >>> at the time when System V Init was conceived. >> Some things must be as simple as possible even t

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-14 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 11/15/2012 10:07 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 01:11:32AM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > [...] >> So systems which put additional logic in PID 1 are going to increase >> the probability of bugs being present, and those bugs could kill >> your system. > [...] > > This is also tr

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-14 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 11/15/2012 06:43 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > I believe the regression (removal of support for firmware loading > during module loading) has been fixed. However, the udev developers > *knew in advance* that this would be a problem, reported such uses of > firmware loading as being driver bugs. The

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 01:11:32AM +, Roger Leigh wrote: [...] > So systems which put additional logic in PID 1 are going to increase > the probability of bugs being present, and those bugs could kill > your system. [...] This is also true for the kernel, which is why we generally prefer to us

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-14 Thread Roger Leigh
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 12:57:50AM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On Nov 14, 2012, at 6:43 PM, lego12...@yandex.ru wrote: > > >> Modern computer systems are much more versatile and complex than they were > >> at the time when System V Init was conceived. > > > > Some things must be a

Re: Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-14 Thread Matthew Thode
As a source for some of our concerns here is us trying to separate out the udev build system so we can build ONLY udev if we want to install ONLY udev (we have to build systemd if we want ONLY udev right now). This means we have to pull in build deps even if we don't actually need them. http://li

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-14 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Nov 15, 2012, at 1:17 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: >>> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/upstart/+bug/557177 > > I suppose you should comment on it too, just to add your indignation > at a bug that never affected you and wasn't fixed for a whole 2 days. Yes, it was fixed, after a ver

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-14 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Nov 15, 2012, at 1:19 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 12:45:48AM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >>> This is not theoretical. upstart has been PID 1 in Ubuntu since 2006. It >>> *is* absolutely dependable and reliable. > >> Upstart has had its problems, too [1].

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 12:45:48AM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > This is not theoretical. upstart has been PID 1 in Ubuntu since 2006. It > > *is* absolutely dependable and reliable. > Upstart has had its problems, too [1]. > [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/upstart/+

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 12:45:48AM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On Nov 15, 2012, at 12:23 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: [...] > > This is not theoretical. upstart has been PID 1 in Ubuntu since 2006. It > > *is* absolutely dependable and reliable. > > Upstart has had its problems, too

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-14 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Nov 14, 2012, at 6:43 PM, lego12...@yandex.ru wrote: >> Modern computer systems are much more versatile and complex than they were >> at the time when System V Init was conceived. > > Some things must be as simple as possible even today. Care to elaborate why? To save memory on an 8 GB work

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-14 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Nov 15, 2012, at 12:23 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: > Upstart provides a PID 1 that is absolutely rock solid. It's true that it's > more complex than sysvinit, because it's more featureful; The same is valid for the comparision of upstart vs systemd. > And of all the concerns raised when Ubunt

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 04:05:12PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 03:04:35PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 09:49:07PM +0800, Patrick Lauer wrote: > > > But anyway, we're getting tired of their ADHD-driven changes just to > > > change things

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-14 Thread Pau Garcia i Quiles
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 11:43 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > I believe the regression (removal of support for firmware loading > during module loading) has been fixed. However, the udev developers > *knew in advance* that this would be a problem, reported such uses > of firmware loading as being dri

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 11:34:27PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 03:41:55PM -0300, gustavo panizzo wrote: > > >udev isn't broken. > > > > really? > > > > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=134012&p=1 > > I actually remember having seen this issue on F

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-14 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 03:41:55PM -0300, gustavo panizzo wrote: > >udev isn't broken. > > really? > > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=134012&p=1 I actually remember having seen this issue on Fedora Rawhide as well, but it vanished after an update a few weeks ago, so it rather seems

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-14 Thread Matthias Klumpp
Hi! All these concerns about systemd and systemd vs. upstart have been addressed in a very good way by the systemd authors. Also, I would like to point out that "systemd" is the name of a project with multiple binaries - all the features systemd provides don't mean that everything is running in one

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-14 Thread Uoti Urpala
Steve Langasek wrote: > Pretty sure you have this backwards. The decision to implement upstart and > use it in Ubuntu was a technical [corrected] one. The decision to NIH a > dependency-based init system and then try to strongarm everyone into using > it by breaking compatibility was the politica

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-14 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Nov 14, 2012, at 10:11 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 12:47:11PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 03:04:35PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >>> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 09:49:07PM +0800, Patrick Lauer wrote: But anyway, we're getting tir

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 12:47:11PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 03:04:35PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 09:49:07PM +0800, Patrick Lauer wrote: > > > But anyway, we're getting tired of their ADHD-driven changes just to > > > change thi

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 03:04:35PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 09:49:07PM +0800, Patrick Lauer wrote: > > But anyway, we're getting tired of their ADHD-driven changes just to > > change things > TBH, I'm getting tired of people who are constantly shooting agai

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-14 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 21:49:07 +0800, Patrick Lauer wrote: > But anyway, we're getting tired of their ADHD-driven changes just to > change things - maybe we can build up enough momentum so that things > might just be less frustrating for us all. You're all welcome to join, > ignore us or do wh

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-14 Thread gustavo panizzo
On 2012-11-14 15:16, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On Nov 14, 2012, at 7:06 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 11/14/2012 10:37 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: True, but as I said, System V Init is not a good concept anymore, that's why it's being dropped. Apple dropped the old init system

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-14 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 11/15/2012 01:26 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On Nov 14, 2012, at 5:05 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: > >> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 03:04:35PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >>> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 09:49:07PM +0800, Patrick Lauer wrote: But anyway, we're getting tired of thei

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-14 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Nov 14, 2012, at 7:06 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 11/14/2012 10:37 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> True, but as I said, System V Init is not a good concept anymore, >> that's why it's being dropped. Apple dropped the old init system with >> MacOS X 10.4, why should the Linux world s

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-14 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 11/14/2012 10:37 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > True, but as I said, System V Init is not a good concept anymore, > that's why it's being dropped. Apple dropped the old init system with > MacOS X 10.4, why should the Linux world still stick to it in 2012? Could we try not to mix the init

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-14 Thread lego12239
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 06:26:39PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > If you want a reliable system, you need a reliable PID 1. Putting > > additional complexity into PID1 increases the likelihood that a > > bug will bring down your *entire system*. PID 1 is a single point > > of failur

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-14 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Nov 14, 2012, at 5:05 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 03:04:35PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 09:49:07PM +0800, Patrick Lauer wrote: >>> But anyway, we're getting tired of their ADHD-driven changes just to >>> change things >> >> TBH, I'm

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-14 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 03:04:35PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 09:49:07PM +0800, Patrick Lauer wrote: > > But anyway, we're getting tired of their ADHD-driven changes just to > > change things > > TBH, I'm getting tired of people who are constantly shooting ag

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-14 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 11/14/2012 07:53 PM, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > What are the problems they try to address? Haven't you read this? https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/2/505 Plus the unwanted move from / to /usr, insane configuration file things not using /etc, and more RedHat-ismes which have been discussed at large i

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-14 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 10:28:34PM +0800, Patrick Lauer wrote: > I'm tired of these changes that don't solve any problems. Half-baked > stuff that is deployed before it is even feature-complete with the > boring old stuff it is supposed to replace. How would you feel about a > forced upgrade of a

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-14 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 09:20:05AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > But why is a 30-year-old concept necessarily worse than a new one? Or to put > it > another way, why is it necessary to "bring Linux forward", in cases where what > is already present is good and works well? (And, taken further: in ca

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-14 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 11/14/12 22:04, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 09:49:07PM +0800, Patrick Lauer wrote: >> But anyway, we're getting tired of their ADHD-driven changes just to >> change things > > TBH, I'm getting tired of people who are constantly shooting against > them because thes

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-14 Thread The Wanderer
On 11/14/2012 09:04 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 09:49:07PM +0800, Patrick Lauer wrote: But anyway, we're getting tired of their ADHD-driven changes just to change things TBH, I'm getting tired of people who are constantly shooting against them because these p

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-14 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 09:49:07PM +0800, Patrick Lauer wrote: > But anyway, we're getting tired of their ADHD-driven changes just to > change things TBH, I'm getting tired of people who are constantly shooting against them because these people are unwilling to accept changes. We're not bringing L

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-14 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 11/14/12 19:53, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > What are the problems they try to address? Removal of features, broken build system, etc. Just the little things that make things exciting (and we prefer things to be boring so we can sleep at night) Plus an unpredictable upstream that can't be trusted

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-14 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 11/14/12 18:37, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Thomas Goirand [2012.11.14.0412 +0100]: >> As Gentoo guys and some major kernel people are protesting about the >> insanity Kay and Lennart have done to udev, > > I cannot help but notice that Kay and Lennart were both > Gentoo-freaks when t

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-14 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Thomas Goirand [2012.11.14.0412 +0100]: > As Gentoo guys and some major kernel people are protesting about the > insanity Kay and Lennart have done to udev, I cannot help but notice that Kay and Lennart were both Gentoo-freaks when they took on udev and at least I always attributed mu

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-14 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 11/14/2012 11:25 AM, Michael Biebl wrote: > So far this seems to be mostly talk and hot air. It's clearly going to take some time to materialize into a more definitive project, however, I don't think that's fair to say it's only "talk and hot air" as I saw some Gentoo patches to uncruft udev al

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-13 Thread Michael Biebl
On 14.11.2012 04:12, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Hi, > > I think this is an interesting read: > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/2262 So far this seems to be mostly talk and hot air. I'm also wondering how many more forks the gentoo guys want to start [1]. Michael [1] https://fo