On 17/09/14 23:43, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am 17.09.2014 um 21:52 schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: >> On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann >> <volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote: >>> Am 17.09.2014 um 21:02 schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: >>>> On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann >>>> <volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote: >>>> [snip] >>>>> Now you use this to advertise for systemd? >>>>> >>>>> Systemd fanbois are becoming more and more desperate. >>>> So, systemd is used (or it has been announced that is going to be >>>> used) by default in all the major distributions, is available and >>>> working great in Gentoo, and many Gentoo users and developers use it >>>> happily. >>>> >>>> So, yeah, we are *really* desperate, obviously. >>>> >>>> Thanks for the laugh. >>>> >>>> Regards. >>> you will stop laughing when redhat&poettering abandon systemd because it >>> is 'fundamentally broken' and must be replaced with something else. >>> >>> Probably as soon as everybody got used to it. >>> >>> And if I guess correctly, pulseaudio will be the driving force behind >>> it. Because history loves repetition. >> Sure Volker, whatever you say. I'm willing to bet the future stability >> of my desktop and server machines that your doomsday-scenario will not >> happen. Actually, I'm already betting on it. >> >> What are you willing to bet? >> >> Again, thanks for the laughs. You are a funny guy. >> >> Regards. > I am not betting anything. > > But I want you to think about something: > > devfs was the best thing since sliced bread. > As soon as everybody used it, it was broken and replaced.
There was no problem with this development. > > hal was the best thing since sliced bread. > As soon as everybody used it, it was broken and abandoned. That's untrue. HAL was responsibly replaced with UDisks. As in, when Gentoo got rid of sys-apps/hal, we made sure everything was ported to UDisks or that unported applications that were removed with sys-apps/hal, had a direct replacement available. It was a logical development, that's all. > > *kit? > The same. > > > FUD.
