On Mon, 30 Sep 2019 00:29:59 +0000 Aitor <aitor_...@gnuinos.org> wrote:
> Hi Steve, > > El 29/9/19 a las 2:32, Steve Litt escribió: > > Hi all, > > > > I just wrote IBM asking them to reconsider systemd, given that IBM's > > business model is different from the old Red Hat's. > > > > It took me 3.5 hours: 2 hours to find valid addresses of Todd Moore, > > VP IBM Open Technologies and Virginia M. Rometty, Chairman, > > President and CEO of IBM. It then took me 1.5 hours to curate my > > letter down to 1 page of 12pt type. My letter was to Moore, CC to > > Rometty. > > > > Given the fact that this letter writing campaign involves more than > > just people in Devuan, and the negative reaction some Devuaners had > > to this project, I will be serving as the central information point > > of the letter writing point, accumulating and refining contact > > information and reporting the successes and failures of writers. > > > > I encourage all of you to write IBM. If I'm right and it helps, this > > would prevent future incompatibilities requiring significant > > increases in Devuan development effort, just to stay even. If I'm > > wrong, you lose a couple hours writing a letter. The web page for > > this letter writing campaign is as follows: > > > > http://troubleshooters.com/ibm_systemd/ > > > > Thanks, > > > > SteveT > > It would not be out of context to discuss about dbus... > > I can't understand neither the dependency of most of the network > managers on dbus, > nor the dependency of the (alsa | pulseaudio) controls on it. > > Cheers, > > Aitor. I think you're right, but removing or decoupling dbus would be a much tougher sell. Dbus is much more metastasized into the rest of the software than systemd is (yet). And while nobody enthusiastically likes dbus, very few absolutely hate it. I felt I'd get farther with just one precision ask. Of course, that doesn't prevent others for asking about dbus. SteveT Steve Litt Author: The Key to Everyday Excellence http://www.troubleshooters.com/key Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
