Re: Why focus on systemd?

2014-11-26 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mercredi, 26 novembre 2014, 09.21:00 The Wanderer a écrit : > On 11/26/2014 at 08:50 AM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > > Le lundi, 24 novembre 2014, 08.02:44 Marty a écrit : > >> On 11/24/2014 02:14 AM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > >> > >&

Re: Why focus on systemd?

2014-11-26 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le lundi, 24 novembre 2014, 08.02:44 Marty a écrit : > On 11/24/2014 02:14 AM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > > Le dimanche, 23 novembre 2014, 18.09:58 Marty a écrit : > >> Did I miss something? > > > > Yes. > > > >> Option 1: init policy

Re: systemd-free alternatives are not off topic.

2014-11-23 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le dimanche, 23 novembre 2014, 21.20:52 Jerry Stuckle a écrit : > On 11/23/2014 8:42 PM, Ric Moore wrote: > > On 11/23/2014 12:17 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > > That is the huge majority of Debian users. > > > >> Some will get a rude surprise when they upgrade and things don't > >> work as expecte

Re: Why focus on systemd?

2014-11-23 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le dimanche, 23 novembre 2014, 18.09:58 Marty a écrit : > Did I miss something? Yes. > Option 1: init policy stands *won by default* [1] > Option 2: change init policy *LOST* > Option 3: ask nicely to follow init policy *lost* > Option 4: policy stands, no statement needed *WON* > Option 5: null

Re: the developers have spoken

2014-11-19 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mercredi, 19 novembre 2014, 15.47:43 Raffaele Morelli a écrit : > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2014/11/msg00014.html > > The winners are: > Option 4 "General Resolution is not required" For which the complete text [0] is: > The Debian project asks its members to be cons

Re: init scripts [was: If Not Systemd, then What?]

2014-11-18 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mardi, 18 novembre 2014, 22.10:22 Miles Fidelman a écrit : > Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > > Let's take the inverse view: which of these use the upstream > > sysvinit scripts directly ? The answer, as demonstrated below, is: > > none. > > Out of cur

Re: init scripts [was: If Not Systemd, then What?]

2014-11-18 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le dimanche, 16 novembre 2014, 11.50:25 Miles Fidelman a écrit : > Given all the talk about not being able to influence upstream, it > occurred to me to actually take a look at which of the major > applications I rely on actually come with native systemd service > scripts. Let's take the inverse v

Re: Why focus on systemd?

2014-11-16 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le dimanche, 16 novembre 2014, 16.36:42 Peter Nieman a écrit : > Preventing the systemd takeover is certainly important, but it won't > be enough to reverse the trend, I fear. None of the talking on debian-user about "meta", "conceptual" or "generic" systemd issues will allow a "systemd takeover"

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-13 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le jeudi, 13 novembre 2014, 09.04:50 Tanstaafl a écrit : > It should have been made mandatory that the systemd folks get this bug > fully resolved and functional *on wheezy* This is simply not how Debian works; stable is meant to stay stable. > *and* commit to maintaining this ability in jessie,

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-12 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mercredi, 12 novembre 2014, 20.10:42 Brian a écrit : > Sounds like, doesn't it? Let's be practical and see how how a screen > in d-i could present an init system choice to a user, particularly > having a new user in mind. For what is worth, the layout of the menu is not the problem here. Cheer

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-12 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mercredi, 12 novembre 2014, 10.33:20 Tanstaafl a écrit : > On 11/12/2014 10:13 AM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > > Le mercredi, 12 novembre 2014, 09.11:40 Tanstaafl a écrit : > >> Which is precisely *why* (people) should have been required to fix > >> tha

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-12 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mercredi, 12 novembre 2014, 10.17:54 Miles Fidelman a écrit : > Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > > Le mercredi, 12 novembre 2014, 09.11:40 Tanstaafl a écrit : > >> Which is precisely *why* (people) should have been required to fix > >> that bug (…) > &g

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-12 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mercredi, 12 novembre 2014, 09.11:40 Tanstaafl a écrit : > Which is precisely *why* (people) should have been required to fix > that bug (…) This is simply not how Debian works. OdyX -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-11 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mardi, 11 novembre 2014, 12.34:10 Miles Fidelman a écrit : > Laurent Bigonville wrote: > > There are no functional differences between an installation with > > sysvinit-core out of the box or an install where sysvinit-core is > > installed later, this is a fact. > > No, that's NOT a fact. At l

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-11 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mardi, 11 novembre 2014, 20.08:08 st a écrit : > Hans wrote: > > I just wanted to show ways, where EVERYONE might be happy > > Sure. Sure. Everybody who has invested years into learning > Debian is just jumping of joy now that it is suddenly turned > into a completely different OS _and_ they h

Re: Debian-Live 7.6.0 usb username & password?

2014-11-07 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le vendredi, 7 novembre 2014, 09.06:04 Lisi Reisz a écrit : > > Quite. And it may have been an x/y question. But the question was > how to get in from the log-in screen. I must download and burn a > live Debian CD in order to find out!! Given a working virtualization setup (KVM, Qemu, Virtualb

Re: forks, derivatives, other distros - what are you thinking/doing

2014-11-06 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mercredi, 5 novembre 2014, 11.45:55 Haines Brown a écrit : > This seems to me an entirely legitimate issue for the debian-user > group, for it concerns whether Debian will continue to be useful in > relation to the needs and values of its average user. debian-user is not a "group of subscribers

Re: forks, derivatives, other distros - what are you thinking/doing

2014-11-05 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Miles, Le mercredi, 5 novembre 2014, 09.32:57 Miles Fidelman a écrit : > [If you're happy with systemd, and not considering a change - please > stay out of this discussion. If you object to the very nature of the > discussion, hit your delete key and kill file this thread now.] I object to the v

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-05 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mercredi, 5 novembre 2014, 09.21:26 Jerry Stuckle a écrit : > On 11/5/2014 2:37 AM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > > Discussions about possible forks are off-topic on debian-user, > > please re-read the list topic: > > From https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-04 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mardi, 4 novembre 2014, 21.13:36 Jerry Stuckle a écrit : > Yes, but you seem to want to stifle any discussion of a possible fork. Discussions about possible forks are off-topic on debian-user, please re-read the list topic: >From https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ : > Community assistance

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-04 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mardi, 4 novembre 2014, 17.13:05 Miles Fidelman a écrit : > Personally, the more this drags on, the more I'm convinced that those > of us who deploy and manage servers would really benefit from a fork > that retains the "flavor" and philosophy of pre-systemd (and maybe > pre-udev) Debian. Just.

Re: LZ4 decompression on Boot

2014-10-29 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Hi Andre, Le mercredi, 29 octobre 2014, 11.43:18 Andre Massena a écrit : > I was not aware that Grub played a role in decompressing a kernal at > boot as that is a kernel function. > (…) Le mercredi, 29 octobre 2014, 13.21:37 Andre Massena a écrit : > No takers here? > (…) Le mercredi, 29 octobr

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le lundi, 13 octobre 2014, 12.23:00 Miles Fidelman a écrit : > Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > > I really don't buy the argument that "the GR proposal was too quiet > > to be noticed by 6+ people". > > Actually - I'd contest that, for four r

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
I really don't buy the argument that "the GR proposal was too quiet to be noticed by 6+ people". I mean: the proposition happened to be in the middle of the post-TC decision wave, on the mailing lists where it belonged. The people who cared about the whole "default init for Debian" question _we