[DNG] Sound in Linux

2015-12-19 Thread Mitt Green
>Looking back the past, the precursor of systemd chaos was replacement of >ALSA with pulseaudio that caused headache to many innocent users from >Debian 6.0 to 7.0. I tried to use buggy pulseaudio for months but went >back to ALSA. You *can't* replace ALSA with pulseaudio, lower ALSA API remains

Re: [DNG] Local netman sources fully restored.

2015-12-19 Thread Edward Bartolo
Hi All, My solution was a safe two step procedure: i) restore sources from backup ii) git pull to update the sources The other solutions had more steps which could go wrong. In fact, I tried two suggested procedures to recover the sources from the git repository as suggested by Aitor. However, b

Re: [DNG] Apply Rainer's patch to netman.

2015-12-19 Thread Edward Bartolo
> On 19/12/2015, aitor_czr wrote: > Hi Edward, > > > On 12/19/2015 05:52 PM, Edward Bartolo wrote: >> >The command: >> >edbarx@edbarx-pc:~/netman_from_backup_08.12.2015$ git patch >> >../rainer_dng-15.12.2015.patch > > The right command is this other one: > > $ git apply --stat ../rainer_dng-15

[DNG] Question on Devuan

2015-12-19 Thread R. W. Rodolico
I've been lurking for a while, and I'm getting close to a decision point. I have been using Debian for well over a decade, but Jessie appears to be too unstable. The two machines I installed it on had issues bad enough that I reverted to Wheezy (reformat/reinstall). Thing is, I mainly deal in serv

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community (John Hughes)

2015-12-19 Thread janpenguin
Looking back the past, the precursor of systemd chaos was replacement of ALSA with pulseaudio that caused headache to many innocent users from Debian 6.0 to 7.0. I tried to use buggy pulseaudio for months but went back to ALSA. Systemd built-in Debian Jessie was a disaster. How many users are

Re: [DNG] Devuan's goal: was Our friendly community

2015-12-19 Thread Svante Signell
On Sat, 2015-12-19 at 12:02 +0100, John Hughes wrote: > On 19/12/15 11:58, dev1fanboy wrote: > > Gnome > > > > If you need more: apt-cache rdepends libsystemd0 | wc -l > We're going round in circles.  *I* posted that command: > > https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20151218.143549.77d859b4.en

Re: [DNG] Life's too short to reply to trolls

2015-12-19 Thread Simon Hobson
Dragan FOSS wrote: > If the group is so weak, that one opponent may threaten it, then something is > wrong with that group, right? No. As pointed out, the "discussion" has distracted people from the task in hand. No-one here has to justify their desire to be systemd free to anyone - yet that'

Re: [DNG] Life's too short to reply to trolls

2015-12-19 Thread Dragan FOSS
On 12/19/2015 07:33 PM, Steve Litt wrote: They damage the group If the group is so weak, that one opponent may threaten it, then something is wrong with that group, right? Be smarter, positive...expose arguments, not anger and "bans":) Math is simple...troll is only one, group has many memb

Re: [DNG] Local netman sources fully restored.

2015-12-19 Thread KatolaZ
On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 02:37:22PM +0100, aitor_czr wrote: [cut] > > I agree, but tags are usefull. > > > Here you are an example with linux-libre: > > I have never said that tags are not useful. I have been using tags since the first days of SVN, where tags where physical copies of entire

Re: [DNG] Life's too short to reply to trolls

2015-12-19 Thread Mitt Green
+1 Please receive a virtual handshake. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Apply Rainer's patch to netman.

2015-12-19 Thread aitor_czr
Hi Edward, On 12/19/2015 05:52 PM, Edward Bartolo wrote: Hi, > >I created a .patch file by copying and pasting the patch supplied by >Rainer, read above. I have the fully restored and up to date netman >sources, but I am not sure whether as typed below "git patch" should >actually apply the pa

[DNG] Life's too short to reply to trolls

2015-12-19 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, Here's a partial list of things I just don't do: * I don't go into a Catholic church saying "Abortion isn't that bad." * I don't go into an abortion rights group meeting saying "Bans on abortion aren't that bad." * I don't go into Linux venues saying "Linux is primitive compared to

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-19 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 19 Dec 2015 11:02:49 + Rowland Penny wrote: > Will somebody please do what debian does when somebody says systemd > is bad on their mailing list -- Ban him! > > Rowland Calling Don Armstrong. Calling Don Armstrong. Don, we need you! :-) SteveT Steve Litt November 2015 featured

Re: [DNG] Apply Rainer's patch to netman.

2015-12-19 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Edward Bartolo writes: > edbarx@edbarx-pc:~/netman_from_backup_08.12.2015$ git apply --check > ../rainer_dng-15.12.2015.patch > error: patch failed: Makefile:13 > error: Makefile: patch does not apply > error: patch failed: debian/rules:2 > error: debian/rules: patch does not apply > > > Checking

Re: [DNG] Apply Rainer's patch to netman.

2015-12-19 Thread Edward Bartolo
edbarx@edbarx-pc:~/netman_from_backup_08.12.2015$ git apply --check ../rainer_dng-15.12.2015.patch error: patch failed: Makefile:13 error: Makefile: patch does not apply error: patch failed: debian/rules:2 error: debian/rules: patch does not apply Checking for patch applicability git states the p

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-19 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 12:46:21PM +0100, John Hughes wrote: > On 19/12/15 12:02, Rowland Penny wrote: > >Look, you troll, If you 'apt-get remove systemd' on debian, it will > >remove Gnome or Mate, I know I tried. Anything that does this, is > >*BAD* in my books. > > You're doing it wrong. > > h

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-19 Thread Go Linux
On Sat, 12/19/15, John Hughes wrote: Subject: Re: [DNG] Our friendly community To: dng@lists.dyne.org Date: Saturday, December 19, 2015, 6:05 AM On 19/12/15 12:54, Rowland Penny wrote: > Firstly, *never* email me directly. Sorry, pressed wrong button in crappy thunderbird interface. --

Re: [DNG] Devuan's goal: was Our friendly community

2015-12-19 Thread dev1fanboy
It still answers your question, and you haven't responded to what I said about gnome. In the previous response you didn't reply to what I said about Devuan not being *just* about systemd either. I think you misunderstand me, I don't want to remove any part of systemd. Can you show what I sai

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-19 Thread Dragan FOSS
On 12/19/2015 02:45 PM, John Hughes wrote: And all the little no-systemd irritations are fixed? hibernation/suspend and so on? I don't know...you can try for yourself.. :) BTW, I think that list of "little no-systemd irritations.." is much shorter than list of systemd irritations ;) Why is

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-19 Thread John Hughes
On 19/12/15 14:34, Dragan FOSS wrote: On 12/19/2015 01:05 PM, John Hughes wrote: people who don't want to use systemd are forced into running broken systems, so I would like to see useful work towards making it possible to easily run alternatives to systemd. You're obviously ignorant :) Appa

Re: [DNG] Local netman sources fully restored.

2015-12-19 Thread aitor_czr
Hi Katolaz, On 12/19/2015 10:52 AM, KatolaZ wrote: On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 08:09:39AM +0100, Edward Bartolo wrote: >Hi All, > >Finally, I fully restored my local netman sources from a full system >backup I made on the 8th December 2015. Updating was a matter of only >deleting the netman/debian

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-19 Thread Dragan FOSS
On 12/19/2015 01:05 PM, John Hughes wrote: people who don't want to use systemd are forced into running broken systems, so I would like to see useful work towards making it possible to easily run alternatives to systemd. You're obviously ignorant :) Rock-solid Debian-jessie-based system withou

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-19 Thread Rainer Weikusat
John Hughes writes: > On 18/12/15 15:50, Mitt Green wrote: >>> It's a library whose sole purpose is to make sure that >>> packages *don't* depend on >>> systemd. >> So, you are saying that libsystemd0 is harmless and it >> doesn't mean anything unless you install systemd, systemd-sysv and so on? >

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-19 Thread John Hughes
On 19/12/15 12:47, KatolaZ wrote: On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 11:02:49AM +, Rowland Penny wrote: [cut] Look, you troll, If you 'apt-get remove systemd' on debian, it will remove Gnome or Mate, I know I tried. Anything that does this, is *BAD* in my books. It also removes cups and many other

Re: [DNG] Not getting your emails

2015-12-19 Thread Simon Hobson
Mitt Green wrote: > Go Linux wrote: > >> Just a heads up. None of your emails are coming through. Not even in spam. >> I >only know that you've posted when I see quotes in the responses. I have >> a >yahoo address for this list and it has been a problem for me too. > > The same thing abou

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-19 Thread John Hughes
On 19/12/15 12:54, Rowland Penny wrote: On 19/12/15 11:45, John Hughes wrote: On 19/12/15 12:02, Rowland Penny wrote: Look, you troll, If you 'apt-get remove systemd' on debian, it will remove Gnome or Mate, I know I tried. Anything that does this, is *BAD* in my books. You're doing it wro

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-19 Thread Mitt Green
Red Hat is Novell in 2010s. Compare: both had deals with Microsoft, both try to take control over Linux, controversial decisions of both were and still are highly criticised in the community, both are companies developing enterprise solutions. Let's see what Red Hat controls: rpm, GNOME, NetworkMa

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-19 Thread Rowland Penny
On 19/12/15 11:45, John Hughes wrote: On 19/12/15 12:02, Rowland Penny wrote: Look, you troll, If you 'apt-get remove systemd' on debian, it will remove Gnome or Mate, I know I tried. Anything that does this, is *BAD* in my books. You're doing it wrong. http://without-systemd.org/wiki/inde

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-19 Thread KatolaZ
On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 11:02:49AM +, Rowland Penny wrote: [cut] > > Look, you troll, If you 'apt-get remove systemd' on debian, it will > remove Gnome or Mate, I know I tried. Anything that does this, is > *BAD* in my books. > It also removes cups and many other things, for that matter. W

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-19 Thread John Hughes
On 19/12/15 12:02, Rowland Penny wrote: Look, you troll, If you 'apt-get remove systemd' on debian, it will remove Gnome or Mate, I know I tried. Anything that does this, is *BAD* in my books. You're doing it wrong. http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/How_to_remove_systemd_from_a_Debian

Re: [DNG] Devuan's goal: was Our friendly community

2015-12-19 Thread Rowland Penny
On 19/12/15 11:02, John Hughes wrote: On 19/12/15 11:58, dev1fanboy wrote: Gnome If you need more: apt-cache rdepends libsystemd0 | wc -l We're going round in circles. *I* posted that command: https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20151218.143549.77d859b4.en.html But you still haven't said

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-19 Thread Rowland Penny
On 19/12/15 10:53, John Hughes wrote: On 19/12/15 11:28, Rowland Penny wrote: On 19/12/15 10:21, John Hughes wrote: On 18/12/15 19:40, Steve Litt wrote: most of [ JH's posts ] tended to say "libsystemd0 isn't that bad", I don't think it's that bad, and, despite my asking nobody can tell m

Re: [DNG] Devuan's goal: was Our friendly community

2015-12-19 Thread John Hughes
On 19/12/15 11:58, dev1fanboy wrote: Gnome If you need more: apt-cache rdepends libsystemd0 | wc -l We're going round in circles. *I* posted that command: https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20151218.143549.77d859b4.en.html But you still haven't said *why* you want to remove libsystemd0.

Re: [DNG] Devuan's goal: was Our friendly community

2015-12-19 Thread dev1fanboy
Gnome If you need more: apt-cache rdepends libsystemd0 | wc -l   On Saturday, December 19, 2015 10:45 AM, John Hughes wrote:   On 19/12/15 11:40, dev1fanboy wrote: You have to avoid many other packages to avoid systemd and in some cases you will end up with systemd support that you don't

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-19 Thread John Hughes
On 19/12/15 11:28, Rowland Penny wrote: On 19/12/15 10:21, John Hughes wrote: On 18/12/15 19:40, Steve Litt wrote: most of [ JH's posts ] tended to say "libsystemd0 isn't that bad", I don't think it's that bad, and, despite my asking nobody can tell me why it is. I will give you a good r

Re: [DNG] Devuan's goal: was Our friendly community

2015-12-19 Thread John Hughes
On 19/12/15 11:40, dev1fanboy wrote: You have to avoid many other packages to avoid systemd and in some cases you will end up with systemd support that you don't want anyway. For example? ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglist

Re: [DNG] Devuan's goal: was Our friendly community

2015-12-19 Thread dev1fanboy
Reading from devuan.org Devuan intends in the long term to try to follow the UNIX philosophy of doing one thing and doing it well, so it's not just about systemd. You have to avoid many other packages to avoid systemd and in some cases you will end up with systemd support that you don't want a

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-19 Thread Rowland Penny
On 19/12/15 10:21, John Hughes wrote: On 18/12/15 19:40, Steve Litt wrote: On Fri, 18 Dec 2015 17:39:26 +0100 John Hughes wrote: On 18/12/15 17:18, Mitt Green wrote: No, the actual work on packages that remove libsystemd0 dependency. I've done quite of it for my machine. Notable examples inc

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-19 Thread John Hughes
On 18/12/15 15:50, Mitt Green wrote: It's a library whose sole purpose is to make sure that packages *don't* depend on systemd. So, you are saying that libsystemd0 is harmless and it doesn't mean anything unless you install systemd, systemd-sysv and so on? Exactly.

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-19 Thread John Hughes
On 18/12/15 19:40, Steve Litt wrote: On Fri, 18 Dec 2015 17:39:26 +0100 John Hughes wrote: On 18/12/15 17:18, Mitt Green wrote: No, the actual work on packages that remove libsystemd0 dependency. I've done quite of it for my machine. Notable examples include angband repositories apart from De

Re: [DNG] Local netman sources fully restored.

2015-12-19 Thread KatolaZ
On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 08:09:39AM +0100, Edward Bartolo wrote: > Hi All, > > Finally, I fully restored my local netman sources from a full system > backup I made on the 8th December 2015. Updating was a matter of only > deleting the netman/debian directory and using "git pull". > > My goal was a

Re: [DNG] Our friendly community

2015-12-19 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 18/12/2015 17:39, John Hughes a écrit : But why? What badness does libsystemd0 do? It's poluting the depending packages, the repository, and apt cache. And it can only be built from upstream systemd source, which means it's imposed on you in some way, even if you don't want it.

[DNG] Apply Rainer's patch to netman.

2015-12-19 Thread Edward Bartolo
On 15/12/2015, Rainer Weikusat wrote: > Some more remarks on the packaging efforts so far: The rules file in the > git repository is > > -- > #!/usr/bin/make -f > > %: > dh $@ --with quilt,python2 > > override_dh_auto_clean: > dh_auto_clean > > override_dh_auto_configure: >

Re: [DNG] Devuan's goal: was Our friendly community

2015-12-19 Thread John Hughes
On 18/12/15 19:02, Steve Litt wrote: Yeah, in an ideal world, we'd like to remove every rotting vestige of systemd, but in a practical world, where if we don't timely produce something people can actually use, this has all been for naught, removal is a process, where on the first go-around we rem