Re: [DNG] leveldb support proposal

2016-03-02 Thread T.J. Duchene
Perhaps my greatest error was assuming that anyone one the list would need or even want a "dumbed down" explanation. In that case, it is most certainly a "mea culpa" on my part. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/c

Re: [DNG] leveldb support proposal

2016-03-02 Thread T.J. Duchene
On 2016-03-02 16:20, Rainer Weikusat wrote: > > The soname mechanism already provides an opportunity for having multiple > version of the same library installed as these cane use different > sonames but provide the same set of symbols. In addition to this, the > symbols themselves can be versioned

Re: [DNG] leveldb support proposal

2016-03-01 Thread T.J. Duchene
On 2016-03-02 03:19, Hendrik Boom wrote: . > > Thanks. You're welcome! =) From this it looks as if there's a table of addresses for the > external references, not a table of call instructions, as I had > previously thought. This would seemm to indicate that the coopilers > generating the code mu

Re: [DNG] leveldb support proposal

2016-03-01 Thread T.J. Duchene
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-dynamic-libraries/ Sorry the link didn't get through the first time. I hope you find it useful, Hendrik. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] leveldb support proposal

2016-03-01 Thread T.J. Duchene
On 2016-03-02 01:23, Hendrik Boom wrote: > Perhaps it is worth going in to more detail. Or providing links to a > more complete description. > > -- hendrik > This may be useful to you, and better than my explanation. Like yourself, I know the basics, but not the exact details of every impleme

Re: [DNG] leveldb support proposal

2016-03-01 Thread T.J. Duchene
On 2016-03-01 23:41, Rainer Weikusat wrote: > "T.J. Duchene" writes: > > On 2016-03-01 20:22, Rainer Weikusat wrote: > >> "T.J. Duchene" writes: > >> > On 03/01/2016 08:15 AM, dng-request@??? wrote: > >> > >> [...] > >

Re: [DNG] leveldb support proposal

2016-03-01 Thread T.J. Duchene
On 2016-03-01 20:22, Rainer Weikusat wrote: > "T.J. Duchene" writes: > > On 03/01/2016 08:15 AM, dng-request@??? wrote: > > [...] > > > > I'd just like to offer my opinions on the subject of Debian/Devuan > > libraries, linking and so on. This i

Re: [DNG] leveldb support proposal

2016-03-01 Thread T.J. Duchene
On 03/01/2016 08:15 AM, dng-requ...@lists.dyne.org wrote: Message: 6 Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 15:15:05 +0100 From: Didier Kryn To:dng@lists.dyne.org Subject: Re: [DNG] leveldb support proposal Message-ID:<56d5a3e9.3060...@in2p3.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Le 01/03/2

Re: [DNG] A heads up about xfce's future

2016-03-01 Thread T.J. Duchene
On 02/29/2016 04:41 PM, Edward Bartolo wrote: Hi, Hello, Edward! =) Like, I assume many, on this mailing list, know what to do when they opt not to install the default window manager or desktop. However, I think, XFCE is a good choice, although on my T4400 2GB computer it tends to be rather

Re: [DNG] A heads up about xfce's future

2016-02-29 Thread T.J. Duchene
On 2016-02-29 17:12, Stephanie Daugherty wrote: > Just to clarify about "default" desktop environment and what that actually > means. > > The "default" desktop environment is the one that gets squeezed onto the > first CD/DVD of a set of installation media, as well as the one that's > installed

Re: [DNG] A heads up about xfce's future

2016-02-26 Thread T.J. Duchene
On 2016-02-26 09:46, Florian Zieboll wrote: > I have been playing a bit with Siduction 14.1 when it was released some > months ago, because it came with an LXQt Desktop. Hi, Florian! =) LXQt does have a lot going for it, but my time spent testing it on Debian Sid left me with a somewhat negati

Re: [DNG] A heads up about xfce's future

2016-02-26 Thread T.J. Duchene
Hello GoLinux, Steve, and Hendrik! Good to see you all again, in spite of past disagreements. This is just my opinion, but I don't see XFCE's future being so grim. I think GTK's future outside of Gnome is the concern. It's been my observation that GTK has become very Gnome-centric, and a numb

Re: [DNG] Systemd Shims

2015-08-16 Thread T.J. Duchene
Well, I suppose the topic has been beat up enough, but I just wanted to clear up something before moving on. I want you to understand why I came to the Devuan list in the first place. I came here under the assumption that Devuan was going to be a "better Debian" without the shove the Technical C

Re: [DNG] Devuan and upstream

2015-08-15 Thread T.J. Duchene
The lack of the last two: multiple versions and shell scripts are why Debian derivatives cannot share packages, even though they use identical base code. Correction: The lack of multiple versions and packahe shell scripts are why Debian derivatives cannot share packages, even though they use ide

Re: [DNG] Devuan and upstream

2015-08-15 Thread T.J. Duchene
On Sat, 15 Aug 2015 20:19:03 + Stephanie Daugherty wrote: Hi, Stephanie! =) > They did, but out of all this design by committee, hidden between all > the political bullshit and bikeshedding, they also created the most > brilliant, most comprehensive set of standards for quality control, > pa

Re: [DNG] Systemd Shims

2015-08-15 Thread T.J. Duchene
On Sat, 15 Aug 2015 03:15:50 -0700 James Powell wrote: Hi Jim! =) > > To me, a shim is not the way. Sanitization is what is needed, and if > that requires work, then question this, 'Will the work be worth it?' > and to me the answer is a definable 'yes'. I suppose there are some people like yo

Re: [DNG] Devuan and upstream

2015-08-15 Thread T.J. Duchene
On Sat, 15 Aug 2015 10:02:12 + Roger Leigh wrote: > That's a considerable achievement--how many other projects have been > able to achieve an equivalent scale? Not very many and I agree with you, it is very impressive, even if Debian makes internal bickering look commonplace. I'd say it is

Re: [DNG] Devuan and upstream

2015-08-15 Thread T.J. Duchene
On Sat, 15 Aug 2015 10:13:56 + Roger Leigh wrote: er revision for 2017, and I think they are nuts. > > I don't. I write C++ code for my day job, and I'd have to say that > these revisions make C++ better than ever to write. It's cleaner, > simpler, and more maintainable. Just last week

Re: [DNG] Systemd Shims

2015-08-15 Thread T.J. Duchene
On Sat, 15 Aug 2015 12:01:35 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: Please, Steve, provide us with all you mentionned, as an > > alternative to mainstream bloated/infected stuff. Since Devuan is > > all about freedom, this is the place where to deliver to the world. > > As soon as I can install Devuan on metal

Re: [DNG] Devuan and upstream

2015-08-14 Thread T.J. Duchene
On Fri, 14 Aug 2015 22:38:35 -0700 Isaac Dunham wrote: > > To elaborate on this, GCC 5.1 (I think) has changed the ABI for C++11 > support. > Packages using C++11 need to be rebuilt with the new library; > libreoffice has already been rebuilt, but not KDE. That's a very good point, Isaac. C++

Re: [DNG] Systemd Shims

2015-08-14 Thread T.J. Duchene
On Fri, 14 Aug 2015 20:26:58 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: > > Oh, you wouldn't want to do that. Contrary to what I wrote in another > thread about "the perfect is the enemy of the good", if *I* were in > charge of decontamination, I'd throw out whole subsystems. LOL! =) One thing I say with the

Re: [DNG] Systemd Shims

2015-08-14 Thread T.J. Duchene
Hi Stephanie! =) On Fri, 14 Aug 2015 13:44:42 + Stephanie Daugherty wrote: > > I fear however that we're going to see packages with deeper and deeper > entanglement with systemd, where it won't be a simple matter to patch > the software to work correctly. Gnome already seems to be moving

[DNG] Devuan and upstream

2015-08-13 Thread T.J. Duchene
Everyone of course is welcome to comment but the question is really for the Devuan team.Is the general plan is just to copy Debian, or are there plans to make more changes than just systemd? Debian APT is an example. It's a good manager, but it falls short in some key areas that are not un

Re: [DNG] Packaging (was Systemd Shimss, Init scripts in packages, possibly Mission Creep)

2015-08-10 Thread T.J. Duchene
On Monday, August 10, 2015 07:32:40 PM Steve Litt wrote: > Hi golinux, > > I base this reply on the assumption that the idea of a base > system is relevant only to the initial install, and that Debian would > certainly continue to have packages for xorg, Xfce, LXDE, Openbox, > *box, Windowmaker, I

Re: [DNG] Packaging

2015-08-10 Thread T.J. Duchene
On Monday, August 10, 2015 08:15:20 AM Rainer Weikusat wrote: > > I'm not convinced that there is any 'overarching problem': All I meant was that Debian and Devuan have the same problem. It could be resolved by changing their packaging policies slightly. The whole reason that Devuan exists is

Re: [DNG] Devuan compared to AntiX

2015-08-09 Thread T.J. Duchene
On 08/09/2015 06:47 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: Doesn't that machine hae teh processor for which Microsoft said that all its Windowses would be totally locked down? Or have things changed for Windows 10? Hello, Hendrik! Assuming you mean "safe boot", that is only mandated for devices specif

Re: [DNG] non-systemd Linux for newbies with good migration tool?

2015-08-09 Thread T.J. Duchene
On 08/09/2015 08:14 PM, Isaac Dunham wrote: Hello, I'm looking for a Linux distro that I could recommend to friends who are rather frustrated with Windows 10. The friends in question ask me about how to fix problems with their computers from time to time. With the greatest respect, Isaac, by my

[DNG] Packaging (was Systemd Shimss, Init scripts in packages, possibly Mission Creep)

2015-08-09 Thread T.J. Duchene
I know I have said this before, but I just wanted to say that both threads are really the same issue. I think the overarching problem that both Debian and Devuan have is the very same problem: packaging. From my little corner of the world, every disagreement so far seems to be a package proble

Re: [DNG] Unmingling kdbus and the Linux kernel

2015-08-08 Thread T.J. Duchene
On 08/08/2015 05:36 AM, Rainer Weikusat wrote: to 'use of systemd', there are things which sound like they were to fear more seriously, ie, the stated intention of at least one kernel maintainer (Tejun Hejo, spelling probably wrong) that he wants to "break userspace" in order to turn cgroups "i

Re: [DNG] Init scripts in packages

2015-08-08 Thread T.J. Duchene
You could always lift scripts from Wheezy and use them as a template. On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 2:28 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > T.J. Duchene wrote: > >> >> >> On 08/07/2015 09:31 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: >> >>> >>> Trivial as in, somebody has t

Re: [DNG] Init scripts in packages

2015-08-07 Thread T.J. Duchene
On 08/07/2015 09:31 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Trivial as in, somebody has to do it. The whole point of packaging is to automate a lot of the routine things involved in installation. And, because Debian (and presumeably Devuan) don't put stuff in default locations, packaging involves chang

Re: [DNG] ideas for system startup (was: Init scripts in packages)

2015-08-07 Thread T.J. Duchene
On Friday, August 07, 2015 06:13:10 PM Gregory Nowak wrote: > > I actually don't mind dropping gnome. It does depend on systemd by > defacto, and is bulky. I did try xfce in a fresh install of debian > jessie, and found it gave me speech when I rebooted after the > install. I'm sorry, I don't k

Re: [DNG] ideas for system startup (was: Init scripts in packages)

2015-08-07 Thread T.J. Duchene
On Friday, August 07, 2015 05:46:00 PM Gregory Nowak wrote: > > I also did do an aptitude search sysv when I had debian jessie freshly > installed, but didn't get a match. If I could have installed sysvinit > or sysvinit-core in a fresh installed, I might have tried that just to > see what I got.

Re: [DNG] ideas for system startup (was: Init scripts in packages)

2015-08-07 Thread T.J. Duchene
On Friday, August 07, 2015 05:06:14 PM Gregory Nowak wrote: > 2. I want ctrl+alt+del to do shutdown -h, instead of shutdown -r > (another real use case on another virtual system). I couldn't figure > out a way to do this in debian jessie. > > Now, what you proposed above from what I understand s

Re: [DNG] GTK (was Will there be a MirDevuan \"WTF\"?)

2015-08-07 Thread T.J. Duchene
Roger, I haven't had a chance, but I wanted to thank you for your insights regarding C++ last month. I've not used it as a "main language" in some time. I was coding in C++ long before smart pointers were introduced. Old habits die hard I suppose. Your comments made me reconsider many thin

Re: [DNG] Init scripts in packages

2015-08-07 Thread T.J. Duchene
>James Powell Thu, 06 Aug 2015 01:02:56 -0700 >Currently Debian packages contains both systemd units and init scripts. >However, Debian developers refused to support several init systems. So it's >only a matter of time when they remove init scripts from packages.What will >Devuan developers do

Re: [DNG] Unmingling kdbus and the Linux kernel

2015-08-07 Thread T.J. Duchene
If I might add my two cents a few days late, I really do not think that kdbus matters overly much and that people (including myself in the past) have assigned too much concern to the topic. Kdbus is little more than an implementation of dbus, which is a fairly neutral protocol. The concern o

Re: [DNG] A better default windows manager

2015-07-26 Thread T.J. Duchene
That's a very gracious offer, Steve, and I'm sure it will be greatly appreciated. =) If I might say so, I HATE automount. Click to mount is fine, but automounting peripheral drives like jump drives, CDs and whatnot is an inexcusable security risk, in my opinion, even under a UNIX. Mounting shoul

Re: [DNG] OT: some ancient programming language history

2015-07-26 Thread T.J. Duchene
On Sun, 2015-07-26 at 23:58 +0200, Didier Kryn wrote: > > > Ada is not an acronym, it's after the first name of the first > person who wrote programs, the daughter of Byron, the english poet. Yes, I know. > > Ada is used in many places where human life is at stake: eg. > planes, missile

Re: [DNG] OT: some ancient programming language history

2015-07-26 Thread T.J. Duchene
On 07/26/2015 11:08 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: I also had a long discussion with some of the guys in charge of the ADA project -- they really wanted the security that comes from completely automatic storage management but they couldn't afford to have their weapons systems stop for garbage collec

Re: [DNG] A better default windows manager

2015-07-26 Thread T.J. Duchene
On 07/26/2015 03:43 AM, KatolaZ wrote: I agree on keeping an eye on GNUStep but, despite I am a WMaker user, I wouldn't recommend it as a default in Devuan either. HND KatolaZ Just my two cents, Realistically, I believe the only sane choice for a *default* is XFCE 4.12. Aesthetically, a

Re: [DNG] GTK (was Will there be a MirDevuan "WTF"?)

2015-07-25 Thread T.J. Duchene
overhead compared to procedural programming. At that point, anyone wanting efficiency really starts questioning the value of OOP. On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 12:36:47PM -0500, T.J. Duchene wrote: > > > > > >

Re: [DNG] A better default windows manager

2015-07-25 Thread T.J. Duchene
On 7/25/2015 9:54 AM, Steve Litt wrote: I've heard that wayland will require systemd. SteveT I have to apologize, Steve. When I refer to "Wayland" I am referring to the Linux project, which as far as I know does NOT have anything to do with systemd. It's just easier to call it "Waylan

Re: [DNG] GTK (was Will there be a MirDevuan "WTF"?)

2015-07-25 Thread T.J. Duchene
On 7/25/2015 5:26 AM, Roger Leigh wrote: In C++ this simply doesn't happen; upcasting is completely transparent, downcasting with dynamic_cast is completely safe. This can lead to long standing latent bugs in the codebase that are well hidden. What you describe is the result of poor des

Re: [DNG] GTK (was Will there be a MirDevuan "WTF"?)

2015-07-24 Thread T.J. Duchene
On 7/24/2015 8:38 PM, Joel Roth wrote: Hi T.J. and others, I've been following this thread with some interest. T.J., it seems most of your objections to OOP are not strictly against the principles and advantages of OOP in abstract, but against the way OOP is implemented in C and C++. With

Re: [DNG] A better default windows manager

2015-07-24 Thread T.J. Duchene
On 7/24/2015 8:02 PM, Marlon Nunes wrote: On 2015-07-24 21:17, T.J. Duchene wrote: CDE is basically dead, and in my opinion should remain dead. While I can share your enthusiasm for older DE's, CDE was never a favorite of anyone except corporate. Everyone else was using FVWM, Andre

Re: [DNG] A better default windows manager

2015-07-24 Thread T.J. Duchene
On 7/24/2015 6:30 PM, Marlon Nunes wrote: Guys what about a true UNIX and complete desktop environment to be the 'default' desktop for devuan 2.0? here's what i'm talking about: http://sourceforge.net/p/cdesktopenv/wiki/Home/ http://sourceforge.net/p/cdesktopenv/wiki/What%20is%20CDE%3F/ "CD

Re: [DNG] GTK (was Will there be a MirDevuan "WTF"?)

2015-07-24 Thread T.J. Duchene
On 7/24/2015 3:57 AM, Roger Leigh wrote: First, thank you for the reply, Roger. I supremely appreciate it. I'm referring to the *GTK* "C API" here. Not C in general. If I create a GObject-based "class", either as a subclass of a GTK class or as an independent class subclassed from the ro

Re: [DNG] GTK (was Will there be a MirDevuan "WTF"?)

2015-07-24 Thread T.J. Duchene
On 7/24/2015 5:03 AM, Didier Kryn wrote: Hey T.J., you seem to contradict yourself when saying "C and C++ are strongly typed" and "Type checking is never C's job." :-) Actually, yes, C and C++ are typed, but weakly. They silently do type conversion in pretty much every instruction.

Re: [DNG] GTK (was Will there be a MirDevuan "WTF"?)

2015-07-23 Thread T.J. Duchene
On 7/23/2015 10:41 PM, Isaac Dunham wrote: I'm inclined to agree with you on C++, but I'd like to refer you to Roger Leigh's comments on the subject about seven and a half months ago; I'm only appending the first couple screenfuls (which is maybe a third of the original) but you should be able

Re: [DNG] GTK (was Will there be a MirDevuan "WTF"?)

2015-07-23 Thread T.J. Duchene
On 7/23/2015 9:52 PM, Jude Nelson wrote: I don't care for it myself - because it is C++. Minor correction: GTK is written in C, and relies on GLib, which is also written C. However, it's open to debate as to how similar/different C-plus-GLib is to C++ in practice. Apologies fo

Re: [DNG] GTK (was Will there be a MirDevuan "WTF"?)

2015-07-23 Thread T.J. Duchene
On Thursday, July 23, 2015 08:22:55 PM Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 12:12:01AM +0200, Teodoro Santoni wrote: > > ... but, yeah, it's outside the scope of Devuan. D-Bus just sucks and is > > documented on a random basis, when you compare it to the rest of > > GNU/Fedora > > it's...

Re: [DNG] Multi-seat on Devuan, do we actually need that useless curiosity?

2015-07-23 Thread T.J. Duchene
On 7/23/2015 5:37 AM, Teodoro Santoni wrote: Good morning, On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 11:39:23PM -0500, T.J. Duchene wrote: [snip] Multi-seat logins are very useful in situations where users do not understand how to run X11 applications with different user permissions. It is an easy

Re: [DNG] Will there be a MirDevuan "WTF"?

2015-07-23 Thread T.J. Duchene
On 7/23/2015 5:16 AM, Laurent Bercot wrote: I agree that it's a fight for another time, though. TY! The information was very simple and very helpful. It's a design flaw that annoys everyone so. This is quite understandable. It has been my experience that a lot of code - FOSS or not - i

Re: [DNG] Multi-seat on Devuan, do we actually need that useless curiosity?

2015-07-23 Thread T.J. Duchene
> Guys, I have serious problems understanding what is the point of this thread, > really. And lenghty emails with many interleaving, fragmented discussions > and cross-quoting from several different sources are far from helpful. Hi KatolaZ! I assure you it was never my intention to offend anyone,

Re: [DNG] Will there be a MirDevuan "WTF"?

2015-07-23 Thread T.J. Duchene
> > Like you I would like to get rid of Dbus. This was invented to replace > the > own equivalents of Gnome and KDE, and I need neither Gnome nor KDE. But > Dbus seems to have infected every other DE. At least Xfce4. > > Didier > I do not understand this animosity toward D-BUS. Could

Re: [DNG] Will there be a MirDevuan "WTF"?

2015-07-23 Thread T.J. Duchene
On 7/23/2015 12:49 AM, James Powell wrote: First off cool your jets, and trying call me out on knowing the internals of an IPC in Userspace I didn't develop is very childish. I honestly don't care if D-Bus what it does other than be a communication and messaging relay between applications an

Re: [DNG] Multi-seat on Devuan, do we actually need that useless curiosity?

2015-07-23 Thread T.J. Duchene
On 7/23/2015 12:01 AM, miro.ro...@croatiafidelis.hr wrote: Because, prove me wrong. Miro, I truly wish you well, but feel no need to prove anything to you. :-) Often the surveillors most used tools, since otherwise they wouldn't be able to follow their targets, is exactly multiseats. They

Re: [DNG] Multi-seat on Devuan, do we actually need that useless curiosity?

2015-07-22 Thread T.J. Duchene
On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 03:49:32AM +0300, Vlad wrote: However these extension hubs actually cost more than a Raspberry Pi, and the Pi has the extra selling point that the student can take it home and use it there. I do not see any real need for silly things like multi seat and with every

Re: [DNG] Interesting comment from a kernel developer

2015-07-22 Thread T.J. Duchene
. [T.J. Duchene] Sorry, my fault! Mea Culpa. I should have read the original message more closely. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] systemd in the era of hotplugable devices

2015-07-22 Thread T.J. Duchene
y before the service is > available. > Overall reaction to the argument: > Expecting init to manage all that is stupid; init should only be concerned > with > system processes. > > Thanks, > Isaac > [T.J. Duchene] Please understand that I hold your opinion in the highes

Re: [DNG] Interesting comment from a kernel developer

2015-07-22 Thread T.J. Duchene
, nothing is working anymore! Have killed Jessie and installed in the Last two days a new Wheeze MiniITX machine and now anything is working as expected. I will do anything to get rid of "systemd"!!! It is a nightmare! -- Michelle Konzack GNU/Linux Developer 0049-176-86004575 [T.J. Duch

Re: [DNG] Jeep Cherokee hacked

2015-07-22 Thread T.J. Duchene
> They are achieving it via an on-line firmware update and downloading a > completely new firmware to the entertainment unit. OS is irrelevant. [T.J. Duchene] I mean no offense, but that statement should really be qualified. Actually the OS is not irrelevant, depending on the configu

Re: [DNG] Systemd (was Dng Digest, Vol 10, Issue 41)

2015-07-20 Thread T.J. Duchene
On Thu, 2015-07-16 at 00:16 +0200, taoi...@gmx.net wrote: > Sorry, just throwing in my 2ct, not even knowing how to correctly quote > (I receive the digested list). No worries, Stephan! =) > > Imho the biggest chance, the biggest potential for devuan would be to > just start off as "another" d

Re: [DNG] Proposed defaults changes

2015-07-19 Thread T.J. Duchene
Nano (and Emacs) belongs to GNU, and you > know it: GNU's Not Unix! Do not forget we are talking of GNU/Linux. > Trying to be POSIX-compliant, sure, but GNU nevertheless... a dilemma :-) > > Good day. > Didier > [T.J. Duchene] LOL! =) You ma

Re: [DNG] Proposed defaults changes

2015-07-19 Thread T.J. Duchene
Hi, everyone! =) With all this discussion about changes, I'd like to make sure that the UNIX guru/programmer is represented. I've mentioned this before, and I hate repetition - BUT - I feel it is important enough that it should be stated separately so that it is not overlooked. All this discu

Re: [DNG] dng@lists.dyne.org

2015-07-17 Thread T.J. Duchene
To: ibid...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [DNG] dng@lists.dyne.org Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 16:46:11 -0500 X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.11.1 (GTK+ 2.24.28; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 12:38:47 -0700 ibid...@gmail.com wrote: > I'm not sure what you mean by "alternative package chains". Multiple

Re: [DNG] Mate

2015-07-17 Thread T.J. Duchene
On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 13:17:15 -0500 Stanley Webb wrote: > Will it be possible to install *.deb's in Devuan? I ask because I > like the Mate desktop, and they offer deb installs at their site > mate-desktop.org. also libreoffice offers deb at their site > www.libreoffice.org. > Hi Stanley! =)

Re: [DNG] dng@lists.dyne.org

2015-07-17 Thread T.J. Duchene
KatolaZ: > > > You guys talk about supporting half a dozen init systems like it > > > was similar to providing half a dozen different editors, which > > > believe me is not quite the case. hendrik: > You're arguing for setting up the framework that makes it possible, > rather than to do the hea

Re: [DNG] Proposed defaults changes

2015-07-17 Thread T.J. Duchene
On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 09:04:43 -0700 jce wrote: > > But as far as the vi vs. nano as *default* editor thing, I think nano > would generate a lot less "how do I get out of this thing?" traffic > for devuan support. > Gentlemen, please excuse me if this seems blunt - but - I think the odds of an

Re: [DNG] dng@lists.dyne.org

2015-07-16 Thread T.J. Duchene
18:01:43 -0700 > Gregory Nowak wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 06:18:09PM -0500, T.J. Duchene wrote: > > > If I might say so, I think that Devuan's short-term goal should be > > > to get a release out as soon as possible, as close to Debian Jesse > > >

Re: [DNG] dng@lists.dyne.org

2015-07-16 Thread T.J. Duchene
On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 13:45:49 -0700 James Powell wrote: > If the goal of Devuan is Debian sans-systemd, then no changes other > than rebuilding packages to exclude systemd support is needed. If I might say so, I think that Devuan's short-term goal should be to get a release out as soon as possibl

Re: [DNG] Proposed defaults changes

2015-07-16 Thread T.J. Duchene
Guys, if you don't mind my saying so, I think that change to the sake of change is really not very useful. More importantly, Devuan needs to keep vi installed in any case, in order to conform to the POSIX standard. I'm tired of the Linux community deciding to ignore UNIX standards. If Devuan is

Re: [DNG] Systemd support in util-linux

2015-07-15 Thread T.J. Duchene
On Wed, 15 Jul 2015 10:20:31 +0100 KatolaZ wrote: > > > I think it is a very good thing to have config scripts checking for > the existence of systemd. This means that developers still consider > systemd a non standard component of a GNU/Linux system, like a library > that you can have in your s

Re: [DNG] Proposed defaults changes

2015-07-15 Thread T.J. Duchene
> > exim -> postfix > I'd like to suggest that Debian' use of a lightweight EXIM (not the full EXIM) remain the default over Postfix. I've managed and programmed Postfix servers before. It is not a trivial task, nor do I believe that Postfix makes a best replacement. Postfix has several long

Re: [DNG] Answering in the list

2015-07-15 Thread T.J. Duchene
On Wed, 15 Jul 2015 17:29:22 +0100 Klaus Ethgen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > Hi guys, > > is it to much to ask not to include me in the To: when answering my > posts? Obviously I read the list so the discussion should stay here. > > And another plea, please do

[DNG] FW: systemd in wheezy, was: Re: bummer

2015-07-09 Thread T.J. Duchene
> -Original Message- > From: T.J. Duchene [mailto:t.j.duch...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, July 9, 2015 12:14 PM > To: 'Teodoro Santoni' > Subject: RE: [DNG] systemd in wheezy, was: Re: bummer > > > > > > > > > And as a c

Re: [DNG] systemd in wheezy, was: Re: bummer

2015-07-09 Thread T.J. Duchene
From: James Powell [mailto:james4...@hotmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 8, 2015 2:37 PM To: T.J. Duchene; 'dng' Subject: RE: [DNG] systemd in wheezy, was: Re: bummer I also do not think recreating SVCHOST is wise. I followed Windows since 2000 and since then SVCHOST has pull

Re: [DNG] systemd in wheezy, was: Re: bummer

2015-07-08 Thread T.J. Duchene
From: James Powell [mailto:james4...@hotmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 8, 2015 12:27 PM To: T.J. Duchene Subject: RE: [DNG] systemd in wheezy, was: Re: bummer I think if Devuan can break the dependency, it can prove more than most people realize. We will certainly see, and it

Re: [DNG] Linus answers a question about systemd

2015-07-03 Thread T.J. Duchene
>I think Linus is right when it comes to systemd as an init, but really >that is not the problem. >The real problem is that systemd is not just an init, it is or is >rapidly becoming, a locked in operating system frame work, looking for a >friendly kernel and a desktop environment. >People

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

2015-06-01 Thread T.J. Duchene
> After more digging, what did the problem turn out to be? > > > policykit-1. Yup, during my upgrade, I snagged policykit-1 from > Devuan. It broke things. > > I apt-get remove'd policykit-1, and lookit that, my Reboot/Shutdown > buttons are back. I didn't even have to restart XFCE. > >

Re: [Dng] How to bust into a broken Qemu VM?

2015-05-16 Thread T.J. Duchene
> > I am impressed by the moral clarity and impassionate manner of the > subscribers on this list today: You mentioned system-rescuec-d and did not > cause a flame war. > > Arnt I'd like to think that we set differences aside when some needs help. ___

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

2015-05-14 Thread T.J. Duchene
> > People are working _now_ on eudev as a replacement for udev until vdev is > finished. It might even be a good replacement for udev already for the > devuan jessie release. [T.J. ] That's very interesting and information I did not know. You have to admit that actual development details re

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

2015-05-14 Thread T.J. Duchene
> Hello T.J., > > I didn't mean to express anything related to "put up or shut up". Actually, I am someone who would pat you on the back if you did. Talk is cheap, and quite frankly, I when dealing with Linux fans I often hear a lot of talk and see very little. I feel you handled it with

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

2015-05-14 Thread T.J. Duchene
I thought it was already settled and decided by the VUA that Devuan Jessie will use udev. I agree with this stance, for the same reason as T.J. points out--udev is production-ready, whereas vdev is not. It's the pragmatic thing to do--I only have a handful of hours per week to work on vdev, so

Re: [Dng] Systemd discussions at LinuxQuestions.

2015-05-14 Thread T.J. Duchene
You both made good points. I've been around a while, so I'll just speak my mind. If that bothers anyone, please "plug your ears." I've used Unix before Linux existed, and after. I've seen ideas come and go. Systemd is absolutely nothing new, nor is the community reaction to it even surprising.

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

2015-05-14 Thread T.J. Duchene
> I think the fact that I pointed out clearly shows that there is very good > technical reason to exclude udev, unless you are willing to be the maintainer > of udev outside systemd source tree in Devuan. [T.J. ] Please understand that I very much respect your position, and I agree with you that

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

2015-05-14 Thread T.J. Duchene
> > I think that has already happened for quite some time. The latest udev > package outside systemd source in Debian is 175-7.2 according to > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/udev. In Debian jessie it is provided by > systemd package as shown on https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/systemd. I am > still

Re: [Dng] Systemd discussions at LinuxQuestions.

2015-05-13 Thread T.J. Duchene
I am reposting this with apologies to all concerned. Outlook mangled the message text. The top few paragraphs were not my own. They belong to James P. >Unfortunately this seems to be a growing trend following the Microsoft playbook of acquisition, suppressi

Re: [Dng] Systemd discussions at LinuxQuestions.

2015-05-13 Thread T.J. Duchene
Unfortunately this seems to be a growing trend following the Microsoft playbook of acquisition, suppression, and extinction on various Linux communities and mailing lists I've been privy to as of recent. Fewer and fewer distributions have avoided systemd but discussion into alternatives i

Re: [Dng] Devuan - Fork or Derivative (or perhaps both)

2015-05-13 Thread T.J. Duchene
> -Original Message- > From: Dng [mailto:dng-boun...@lists.dyne.org] On Behalf Of Daniel > Reurich > Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 3:58 PM > To: dng@lists.dyne.org > Subject: [Dng] Devuan - Fork or Derivative (or perhaps both) > > Hi > > I wonder if Devuan should rebrand its relationship t

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

2015-05-13 Thread T.J. Duchene
> -Original Message- > From: Dng [mailto:dng-boun...@lists.dyne.org] On Behalf Of David Hare > Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 8:12 PM > To: dng@lists.dyne.org > Subject: Re: [Dng] A novice attempt to speed up Devuan development > > While we're waiting for vdev (that does look like the way t

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

2015-05-13 Thread T.J. Duchene
With respect, Edward, I can't imagine why you are taking the "long way around" in regards to systemd XFCE 4.12 can be compiled without systemd to my knowledge. That would eliminate any concerns. T.J. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://

Re: [Dng] why someone might want systemd on devuan

2015-05-13 Thread T.J. Duchene
>This is the exact situation in which I'm glad for containers and VMs. >Use all the systemd you want, but keep it in a Biosafety level 4 >containment facility. I'd use a VM. I suspect a container or chroot would not be sufficient. =) All jokes aside, this would be why I am watching the systembs

[Dng] Purpose of systemd-shim

2015-04-26 Thread T.J. Duchene
>Also, if one really, really, really needs a systemd burdened software, >he could always run it in a Docker container. Hey, Steve! Good to hear from you! Now that is a very good point. Unfortunately, running systemd inside of Docker container requires a privileged container and does

Re: [Dng] Purpose of systemd-shim

2015-04-16 Thread T.J. Duchene
On 2015-04-15 19:01, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 06:39:29PM +0200, Franco Lanza wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 01:22:28PM +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote: > > > > > > systemd-shim is for when you *don't* want systemd. > > > > Yes, but cause of you have things that depend

[Dng] Contact

2015-04-06 Thread T.J. Duchene
Anyone wants to contact me is certainly welcome to do so off of the Devuan list, on any subject they please. I'm not trying to be dramatic, but I believe that it is in Devuan's best interest that I leave. By removing myself from the list, legitimate conversation can continue. I'm still interest

Re: [Dng] Too many man pages, too much complicated : systemd

2015-04-06 Thread T.J. Duchene
> > What really puzzles me is why if you love systemd that much you just > continue arguing about systemd on the ML of a Debian fork specifically born > to throw systemd away. Do you think you might be able to convince us that > systemd is *good* and *beautiful* and *necessary*? I don't want to

Re: [Dng] Too many man pages, too much complicated : systemd

2015-04-06 Thread T.J. Duchene
> -Original Message- > From: Jaromil [mailto:jaro...@dyne.org] > Sent: Monday, April 6, 2015 2:28 AM > To: T.J. Duchene; dng@lists.dyne.org > Subject: Re: [Dng] Too many man pages, too much complicated : systemd > > hi T.J. > > On 6 April 2015 01:37:23 CE

Re: [Dng] [OT]I have been liberated!

2015-04-06 Thread T.J. Duchene
> -Original Message- > From: neofu...@ww7.be [mailto:neofu...@ww7.be] On Behalf Of Neo > Futur > Sent: Sunday, April 5, 2015 11:10 PM > To: T.J. Duchene > Cc: dng@lists.dyne.org > Subject: Re: [Dng] [OT]I have been liberated! > > I m a gentoo and mageia

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