I'm sorry, it's the middle of the night here, and I shouldn't be
responding to mail. I didn't notice that the private copy was a _Cc_,
and otherwise would not have spoken in that tone.
As is the way of such things, I realised my error a split-second after
the Send command.
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Quoting dev (devua...@gmail.com):
> Sure, why not?
1. I notice you curiously dropped off the mailing list into private
mail. Sorry, I wasn't really interested in a private discussion.
2. I notice you weren't interested in that wager.
So, just rhetorical overload, as expected.
> Glibc is ju
On 07/13/2016 01:14 PM, Rick Moen wrote:
'dev' wrote:
> You can pin all you want, and force-remove all you want, but
> one day there will be a package you need (let's pretend it's
> linux-libc-dev-xxx.x.x) which will have the hinge-pin baked-in. You
> can no longer update libc.
Really? Th
On Wed, 13 Jul 2016, Simon Hobson wrote:
> That brings me to something I've been meaning to ask for a while. Is
> there anything practical I can do to help ?
well, besites being one of many nice people that are part of this
community :^) what comes to me in mind is the Distrowatch rating for
Devu
Hi,
If my memory serves me right, Debian have removed apt pinning and they
see nothing wrong in making more packages depend on systemd. That is
enough of an indicator to decide in favour of more choice.
Long Life Choice.
Edward
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dev wrote:
> I mention all this becuase I took the "deb 8" pinning challenge today
> and it failed miserably.
I tried something similar not long ago. It "almost" worked except that one
component of Clamav that the server in question needs has a dependency on
libsystemd0. The response from the
hi there,
thanks for the post. Also many others here and among VUAs have tried
the pinning before proceeding with the debianfork plan and spotted
many limitations. Pinning cannot work for serious production and
long-term use, this was our conclusion. In my eyes anyone saying that
Devuan can be su
*sigh* apologies for the length. It was not what I intended..
tldr: "Go devuan! Debian 8 pinning does not work for me"
I don't have the thread anymore, but there was something posted
within the past couple days which led me to this link -- I think
it was something Steve posted; something about a
