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

2012-08-15 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 8:01 AM, Fabian Groffen wrote: > On 15-08-2012 07:50:42 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 7:41 AM, Fabian Groffen wrote: >> > There are only a few packages I've seen that depend on a certain >> > (min/max) version of glibc, and when in use for Prefix, m

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

2012-08-15 Thread William Hubbs
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 06:27:41AM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > RE you concerns about OpenRC being in @system. Personally I'm a fan > of getting rid of @system entirely except as something used to build > install CDs or having some sets for convenience in building systems. > It only exists for a f

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

2012-08-15 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 15-08-2012 07:50:42 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 7:41 AM, Fabian Groffen wrote: > > There are only a few packages I've seen that depend on a certain > > (min/max) version of glibc, and when in use for Prefix, mostly use > > "!prefix? ( elibc_glibc? ( ...) )" > > stuff

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

2012-08-15 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 7:41 AM, Fabian Groffen wrote: > There are only a few packages I've seen that depend on a certain > (min/max) version of glibc, and when in use for Prefix, mostly use > "!prefix? ( elibc_glibc? ( ...) )" > stuff at the moment. Half the packages in portage link to libc, t

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

2012-08-15 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 15-08-2012 07:32:45 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 7:07 AM, Fabian Groffen wrote: > > On 15-08-2012 12:58:32 +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > >> Rich Freeman wrote: > >> > 2. Things like Prefix rely on the system not installing local copies > >> > of libraries in the core sy

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

2012-08-15 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 7:07 AM, Fabian Groffen wrote: > On 15-08-2012 12:58:32 +0200, Michał Górny wrote: >> Rich Freeman wrote: >> > 2. Things like Prefix rely on the system not installing local copies >> > of libraries in the core system it needs to link to. Careful use of >> > package.provi

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

2012-08-15 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 15-08-2012 12:58:32 +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > Rich Freeman wrote: > > 2. Things like Prefix rely on the system not installing local copies > > of libraries in the core system it needs to link to. Careful use of > > package.provided in profiles might address this. Huh? Not sure I understa

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

2012-08-15 Thread Michał Górny
On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 06:27:41 -0400 Rich Freeman wrote: > 1. Devs don't want to have ebuilds that capture dependencies on every > little thing. A few well-chosen virtuals like "shell utilities" or > whatever might help with this. Just note that PMS specifies a few requirements about those utili

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

2012-08-15 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > You can get as much vertical integration with Gentoo as with any other > distro. The problem (and I think this is the point Greg is trying to > make) is that it will be harder (not impossible, just harder) if most > of Gentoo developers

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

2012-08-14 Thread Luca Barbato
On 08/14/2012 09:14 PM, Peter Stuge wrote: > But it means nothing for someone who wants to open a box, switch on > the power, and go online to $socialmediasite or $emailprovider. Sabayon does a decent job for them. lu

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

2012-08-14 Thread Peter Stuge
Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > You can get as much vertical integration with Gentoo as with any other > distro. The problem (and I think this is the point Greg is trying to > make) is that it will be harder (not impossible, just harder) if most > of Gentoo developers really believe that every single

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

2012-08-14 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 5:31 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 11:24 PM, Greg KH wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 03:47:19PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: >>> On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés >>> wrote: >>> > >>> > I agree with Greg Kroah-Hartman: I actually lik

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

2012-08-14 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 11:24 PM, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 03:47:19PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: >> > >> > I agree with Greg Kroah-Hartman: I actually like (and want) a >> > "vertically integrated, tightly coupled way o

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

2012-08-13 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 03:47:19PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés 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 wit

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

2012-08-13 Thread Michał Górny
On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 12:47:51 -0700 Christopher Head wrote: > On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 11:03:01 +0300 > Samuli Suominen wrote: > > > > 2. I saw on some lists that Gnome/Kde and Xfce plan to use some > > > SystemD API, so does it means that we will need to install SystemD > > > aside of OpenRC ? > >

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

2012-08-13 Thread Christopher Head
On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 11:03:01 +0300 Samuli Suominen wrote: > > 2. I saw on some lists that Gnome/Kde and Xfce plan to use some > > SystemD API, so does it means that we will need to install SystemD > > aside of OpenRC ? > > For Xfce it only means that xfce4-session will try to query > credentials

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

2012-08-12 Thread viv...@gmail.com
Il 12/08/2012 09:44, Michał Górny ha scritto: On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 01:29:43 +0200 "viv...@gmail.com" wrote: 2. I saw on some lists that Gnome/Kde and Xfce plan to use some SystemD API, so does it means that we will need to install SystemD aside of OpenRC ? It's not possible at the moment. syst

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

2012-08-12 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 08/07/2012 03:47 PM, Sylvain Alain wrote: Hi everyone, for a couple of months now, I see on the list some of activities about OpenRC been ported to FreeBSD or OpenRC to Debian and other stuff related to SystemD. I have some basic questions about all that : 2. I saw on some lists that Gnome/K

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

2012-08-12 Thread Michał Górny
On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 01:29:43 +0200 "viv...@gmail.com" wrote: > > 2. I saw on some lists that Gnome/Kde and Xfce plan to use some > > SystemD API, so does it means that we will need to install SystemD > > aside of OpenRC ? > It's not possible at the moment. systemd break non-systemd setups. E

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

2012-08-11 Thread Peter Stuge
viv...@gmail.com wrote: > First problem udev/SD has is that it can't see all the file system labels, > for some reason it only see sda and sdb so it's able to partly proceed in > the boot sequence, mount / (root) but can't mount anything else. What software parses the filesystem labels when you

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

2012-08-11 Thread viv...@gmail.com
Il 07/08/2012 14:47, Sylvain Alain ha scritto: Hi everyone, for a couple of months now, I see on the list some of activities about OpenRC been ported to FreeBSD or OpenRC to Debian and other stuff related to SystemD. I have some basic questions about all that : 1. The SystemD and Udev projetc

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 > 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. > > >

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] Questions about SystemD and OpenRC

2012-08-09 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 7:26 PM, G.Wolfe Woodbury 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 rare. Prac

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

2012-08-09 Thread G.Wolfe Woodbury
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 rare. Practically all the graphical interface software uses X and its addons.

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

2012-08-09 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Olivier Crête schrieb: > Can we also have a desktop that doesn't use X? Yes, through Wayland or DirectFB. Best regards, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn

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 wrote: > > > > > Obviously it is always fun seeing people first say "accept it or fork > > > it", then "do not keep your f

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 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 wrote: >> >> > Obviously it is always fun seeing people first say "accept it or fork >> > it", then "do not keep your fork you

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 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 forking and/o

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 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 the first place

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

2012-08-09 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés 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 wou

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 wrote: > On 08/09/2012 09:43 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > > On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 10:42:15 +0200 > > Luca Barbato wrote: > > > >> Repeat after me: having your first process require anything more > >> than libc is stupid and dangerous. > > > > But you

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 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 's

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 wrote: > On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 3:42 AM, Luca Barbato 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 h

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 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. Anyway, I'm not sure

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 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 general-purpose

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 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? > Once that concep

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 wrote: > On Thu, 9 Aug 2012 13:53:34 -0500 > Canek Peláez Valdés 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 sy

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 Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 9 Aug 2012 13:53:34 -0500 Canek Peláez Valdés 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 monolithic, vertically

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 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 Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 11:12:46 -0700 Olivier Crête 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 a reasonable

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 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 libraries has a bug,

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

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 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 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 repla

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

2012-08-08 Thread Jason A. Donenfeld
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > You'd have to talk to them, but I believe their goal is to go for more > of a vertically-integrated experience (which fits more with Gnome or > KDE than Xfce, but again the last I'd heard only Gnome was going in > this direction so far). Ubun

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

2012-08-07 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Dale wrote: > Now, since Walter didn't like the way things are going, can he write > code and be left in peace to do so? Maybe have a little bit of support > while he is doing it? ++ I can't say I think that preferring mdev over an initramfs is a good choice, but

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

2012-08-07 Thread Dale
Michał Górny wrote: > On Tue, 7 Aug 2012 13:31:32 -0400 > Michael Mol wrote: > >> On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Michał Górny >> wrote: >>> On Tue, 7 Aug 2012 11:33:59 -0400 >>> Sylvain Alain wrote: >>> The KDE team seems to work on that too : http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m

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

2012-08-07 Thread Michał Górny
On Tue, 7 Aug 2012 13:31:32 -0400 Michael Mol wrote: > On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Michał Górny > wrote: > > On Tue, 7 Aug 2012 11:33:59 -0400 > > Sylvain Alain wrote: > > > >> The KDE team seems to work on that too : > >> http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=134052539215508&w=2 > > >

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

2012-08-07 Thread Olivier Crête
Hi, Let's cut the FUD. On Tue, 2012-08-07 at 08:47 -0400, Sylvain Alain wrote: > 1. The SystemD and Udev projetcs are merged now, so what is the impact > on the Gentoo on a short term period ? Only the build system is merged, they're still separate binaries. > 2. I saw on some lists that Gnome/

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

2012-08-07 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > On Tue, 7 Aug 2012 11:33:59 -0400 > Sylvain Alain wrote: > >> The KDE team seems to work on that too : >> http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=134052539215508&w=2 > > it's actually worth it. > more user-spread FUD or however you like to c

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

2012-08-07 Thread Michał Górny
On Tue, 7 Aug 2012 11:33:59 -0400 Sylvain Alain wrote: > The KDE team seems to work on that too : > http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=134052539215508&w=2 it's actually worth it. more user-spread FUD or however you like to call it on the topic than I'm not sure if *devs* are actually worki

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

2012-08-07 Thread Sylvain Alain
The KDE team seems to work on that too : http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=134052539215508&w=2 Now I understand why some devs are working hard to make Mdev working with OpenRC. They want to replace Udev/SystemD with Mdev/OpenRC and solve this situation. Sylvain aka d2_racing 2012/8/7 Ric

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

2012-08-07 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Peter Stuge wrote: > Yes, but if the upstream that is Gnome decides to start depending on > systemd features then that's their decision, and the place to discuss > if it's good or bad (more important, the place to change it!) would > be within the Gnome project. M

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

2012-08-07 Thread Peter Stuge
Rich Freeman wrote: > In the future it might be much harder to run Gnome on Gentoo on an OSX > kernel, etc. Yes, but if the upstream that is Gnome decides to start depending on systemd features then that's their decision, and the place to discuss if it's good or bad (more important, the place to c

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

2012-08-07 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Sylvain Alain wrote: > Hi everyone, for a couple of months now, I see on the list some of > activities about OpenRC been ported to FreeBSD or OpenRC to Debian and other > stuff related to SystemD. > You and half the world. Most of the issues you raise are much big

[gentoo-dev] Questions about SystemD and OpenRC

2012-08-07 Thread Sylvain Alain
Hi everyone, for a couple of months now, I see on the list some of activities about OpenRC been ported to FreeBSD or OpenRC to Debian and other stuff related to SystemD. I have some basic questions about all that : 1. The SystemD and Udev projetcs are merged now, so what is the impact on the Gent