-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 18/07/11 13:15, Gergely Nagy wrote: > Federico Di Gregorio <f...@debian.org> writes: > >> > On 18/07/11 12:13, Samuel Thibault wrote: >>> >> Jon Dowland, le Mon 18 Jul 2011 10:35:30 +0100, a écrit : >>>> >>> 1. carry portability patches against systemd locally >>>> >>> 2. support multiple init systems >>>> >>> 3. drop kfreebsd (and HURD and others) >>> >> >>> >> 3 basically means dropping "Universal" from Debian, and replace it with >>> >> "Linux". >> > >> > Wasn't "universal" as in "runs everywhere" (i.e., on a lot of archs) vs >> > as "runs everything" (when a Debian GNU/WinNT?). > The main issue I have with dropping kFreeBSD & HURD would be (apart from > losing two platforms I use - even if for fun only; I don't want to use a > distribution that doesn't allow me to have as much fun as I do now) that > it leads down the path of dropping whatever a vocal upstream decides to > don't care about.
I'd never advocate dropping kernels or archs. Our social contract binds us to provider our *users* the best possible OS. If systemd makes Debian GNU/Linux better (and here I am supposing the vast majority of Debian users are Linux users) then the right thing to do is to use it. What about other kernels? What about embedded systems? That depends on the developers involved. Probably using a different init or porting systemd is a fine solution, depending on the amount of work required. FreeBSD, HURD and Linux have different targets, a different user base and a different developer base. Trying to create a completely uniform Debian out of them is, IMO; doomed to fail. We don't want three sub-optimal, perfectly identical operating systems. We want the three best operating systems (maybe a little bit different in functionality) we can give to our users. Right? federico - -- Federico Di Gregorio f...@debian.org - Ma cos'ha il tuo pesce rosso, l'orchite? - Si, ha un occhio solo, la voce roca e mangia gli altri pesci. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk4kIHoACgkQvcCgrgZGjesj/gCePjKk5Lsdh+Ki++uIgWAwlU1N QyYAn0AwKHjCQiJzw06k9UieQkJD1tfl =i/XD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e24207a.1090...@debian.org
