Re: [dev] app locations?

2016-10-17 Thread alp
On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 07:03:59PM +0300, Ali H. Fardan wrote: > /bin - for binaries that come with the system So they never get maintained with a package manager? Sounds like a really weird way of doing things. If you bootstrap with a tarball, the distinction becomes meaningless once you've updat

Re: [dev] app locations?

2016-10-17 Thread alp
On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 05:56:56PM +0200, Laslo Hunhold wrote: > There is no reason to support this ancient concept of a separate > /usr-partition. The age of tape-drives is over, there is no need for > it. And I must admit, it really makes things complicated in a lot of > respects. NFS mounts may

Re: [dev] app locations?

2016-10-17 Thread alp
> Throw away your Linux-ish idea of "everything is a package", What the heck is wrong with that? And why argue against, if you mentioned it in the first place? I was just pointing out an inconsistency in how it was presented, as if /bin wasn't managed by the package manager. Geez. > and take a l

Re: [dev] [stali] The stali way to wifi

2016-10-18 Thread alp
On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 07:46:14PM +0200, Kamil Cholewiński wrote: > not running stali (Debian here), but should work all the same. > I simply put wpa_supplicant and dhclient under runit: dhclient? I thought that was, *relatively* speaking, looked down on?

Re: [dev] [stali] Boot time (was: The stali way to wifi)

2016-10-23 Thread alp
> On 10/21/16 11:48, Anselm R Garbe wrote: > > I've been arguing against MS Windows' misdesign to reboot the system > > on configuration changes. But from a stali perspective I kind of > > prefer rebooting the system for the prize of avoiding a daemon or > > runlevel management. It's simpler and it

Re: [dev] Collecting sins of Apple

2016-10-25 Thread alp
On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 12:53:36PM +0200, Anselm R Garbe wrote: > To bring it to one sentence, Apple is about providing their stuff as > incompatible as possible with all non-Apple stuff. […] proceeds with > the keyboard layout, Unh, other than swapping Mod1 and Mod4, they've usually been the most