T.J. Duchene <t.j.duchene <at> gmail.com> writes: > > If I might add my opinion to the discussion, I will be very clear in saying > that even attempting to stay somewhat in sync with Debian is a waste of > valuable time and effort, and deserves a resounding “No” vote.
haaang on... :) > the subject of systemd, but I'll be as direct as I can when I say that if > Devuan does not go its own way, completely and entirely without compromise, > it's going to “whither on the vine” under the sheer workload of spending > increasing time to trying maintain package compatibility for people who want > to jump back and forth. i believe you may be severely underestimating the workload that the current debian maintainers handle. there are over 35,000 packages, and i believe something like 1,000 maintainers. there are something like 12 ports to different architectures, and the mirrors (of which there are around a hundred) require something like 160 gigabytes of space and tend to redline whatever network bandwidth they're allowed, particularly during upgrades. debian is *big*. to expect even a medium-sized team to cope with 10 to 100 times the workload which the current debian team handle, by dropping the entire debian repository onto them and expecting them to be able to recompile it and maintain it is... i think you'd agree, completely unrealistic. i believe you'd agree that by comparison, maintaining even fifty packages amongst a team of say even five people is something that could conceivably be managed on an emergency day-to-day basis. l. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
