Re: [Dng] A novice attempt to speed up Devuan development

2015-05-06 Thread James Powell
Yes. Eudev should be the target goal for now until Jude can get vdev stabilized. There's also the aspect of using Busybox-mdev (mdev-like-a-boss project has a lot of insight on this for generalized usages) though this would forgo any allowances of evdev drivers for input devices and require the

Re: [Dng] Is it useful to create a .so file to replace functions imported from libsystemd & Co.?

2015-05-06 Thread James Powell
LoginKit supposedly implements parts of the libsystemd IPC against DBus while passing the remainder of logind function calls back to ConsoleKit2. LoginKit only covers the "inhibit()" function while everything else is covered by ConsoleKit2, for now at least. In LoginKit it only uses what the aut

Re: [Dng] Please stop vain discussion

2015-05-06 Thread James Powell
When it comes to building packages, you can always run "rm" with an option against the temporary directory where the packer is targeting to remove any files related to systemd, use sed or patches against existing scripts or import custom scripts and configurations, and then allow the packager to

Re: [Dng] Please stop vain discussion

2015-05-06 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 06/05/2015 19:49, Anto a écrit : On 06/05/15 10:23, Didier Kryn wrote: Dear devuaners, Debatting wether Devuan should allow systemd usage or forbid it completely, or wether it should eradicate systemd service files from all packages is interesting, but for sure prematurate. Let's di

Re: [Dng] Please stop vain discussion

2015-05-06 Thread Philip Lacroix
Am 06.05.2015 20:47 schrieb Nextime: The official position is: we will support anything that can be packaged without hijacking the whole system to be installed. Actually systemd doesn't match this requirement, so, devuan will not support it as long it doesn't radically change. Anyway we will not

Re: [Dng] Please stop vain discussion

2015-05-06 Thread Nextime
On May 6, 2015 8:33:31 PM CEST, Laurent Bercot wrote: >On 06/05/2015 19:49, Anto wrote: >> When I started this thread, I genuinely asked technical question >> related to what I am doing in removing systemd's files from Debian >> sources of some packages. I am quite sure that I didn't propose or >>

Re: [Dng] Please stop vain discussion

2015-05-06 Thread Laurent Bercot
On 06/05/2015 19:49, Anto wrote: When I started this thread, I genuinely asked technical question related to what I am doing in removing systemd's files from Debian sources of some packages. I am quite sure that I didn't propose or demand that to be implemented in Devuan. I am doing that all sole

Re: [Dng] Please stop vain discussion

2015-05-06 Thread Anto
On 06/05/15 10:23, Didier Kryn wrote: Dear devuaners, Debatting wether Devuan should allow systemd usage or forbid it completely, or wether it should eradicate systemd service files from all packages is interesting, but for sure prematurate. Let's discuss that when someone proposes to d

Re: [Dng] Which package generates /lib/systemd and /etc/systemd files?

2015-05-06 Thread Jim Jackson
Apoligies for the finger trouble - I hit send instead of cancel. On Wed, 6 May 2015, Jim Jackson wrote: > > > > On Tue, 5 May 2015, Anto wrote: > > On 05/05/15 16:05, David Hare wrote: > > > > > > > The decision in Debian to default the init system to systemd > > > > is the main reason to fo

Re: [Dng] Which package generates /lib/systemd and /etc/systemd files?

2015-05-06 Thread Jim Jackson
On Tue, 5 May 2015, Anto wrote: > On 05/05/15 16:05, David Hare wrote: > > > > > The decision in Debian to default the init system to systemd > > > is the main reason to fork Debian in the first place. > > > > Not exactly.. The reason is Debian's decision to *require* systemd with the > > only

Re: [Dng] Is it useful to create a .so file to replace functions imported from libsystemd & Co.?

2015-05-06 Thread Dima Krasner
On Wed, 6 May 2015 06:58:41 + Edward Bartolo wrote: > The exercise is to search for these functions in systemd's source code > and create a .so file with only the required functions. The functions > can also be reimplemented, but that takes more time than simply > stripping the required funct

Re: [Dng] Which package generates /lib/systemd and /etc/systemd files?

2015-05-06 Thread Noel Torres
Isaac Dunham escribió: Level 1: If someone wants to use the dependency resolution that systemd has, they need to have a configuration file for the software that specifies how to start it and what needs to happen first. [...] I read Noel's comments as being in favor of leaving whatever is at in

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2015-05-06 Thread Randall Wolf
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Re: [Dng] Which package generates /lib/systemd and /etc/systemd files?

2015-05-06 Thread KatolaZ
On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 06:27:49AM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: [cut] > > > > So why should we waste man-power on allowing to use systemd in a > > distribution whose first aim and motivation is to provide a > > systemd-free GNU/Linux?!?!? > > Nor should we waste manpower making it extra difficul

Re: [Dng] Which package generates /lib/systemd and /etc/systemd files?

2015-05-06 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 11:12:46PM +0100, KatolaZ wrote: > On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 05:34:19PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > [cut] > > > >I meant "we should live with the fact that systemd is not unpluggable" > > >:) > > > > Nicely put. But do you draw any implication from that vis-a-vis > >

Re: [Dng] Is it useful to create a .so file to replace functions imported from libsystemd & Co.?

2015-05-06 Thread Jaromil
hi Edward, On Wed, 06 May 2015, Edward Bartolo wrote: > I am using lsof together with objdump -T executable to determine what > systemd functions are imported by essential XFCE4 executables. > > For instance, this is for /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor: [...] this was Dima's approac

Re: [Dng] A novice attempt to speed up Devuan development

2015-05-06 Thread Jaromil
dear Jaret, thanks for your information On Tue, 05 May 2015, Jaret Cantu wrote: > eudev continues to pull in relevant udev changes from the systemd > tree (without the init-specific filth, obviously) and even provides > some fixes of its own. It is like a window into some magical world > where

[Dng] Please stop vain discussion

2015-05-06 Thread Didier Kryn
Dear devuaners, Debatting wether Devuan should allow systemd usage or forbid it completely, or wether it should eradicate systemd service files from all packages is interesting, but for sure prematurate. Let's discuss that when someone proposes to do the job. Up to now nobody has