Re: [Dng] Some downgrades may be needed e.g. cups Re: Towards systemd-free packages

2015-02-15 Thread Go Linux
On Sun, 2/15/15, Steve Litt wrote: Subject: Re: [Dng] Some downgrades may be needed e.g. cups Re: Towards systemd-free packages To: dng@lists.dyne.org Date: Sunday, February 15, 2015, 9:20 AM On Tue, 3 Feb 2015 22:27:04 +0100 Nikolaus Klepp wrote: [cut] Hi Nik, You paint a tempting

Re: [Dng] Some downgrades may be needed e.g. cups Re: Towards systemd-free packages

2015-02-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 3 Feb 2015 22:27:04 +0100 Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > Hi Steve! > > When you remove all extra stuff from TDE then you end up with a sytem > thats still superior to XFCE. I'll just hilight the things I like > most (only the base system, not the extra applications): > - one cental configuriati

Re: [Dng] Some downgrades may be needed e.g. cups Re: Towards systemd-free packages

2015-02-15 Thread Nikolaus Klepp
Am Dienstag, 3. Februar 2015 schrieb Steve Litt: > On Tue, 3 Feb 2015 20:15:50 +0100 > Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > > > Am Dienstag, 3. Februar 2015 schrieb Steve Litt: > > > On Tue, 03 Feb 2015 16:14:10 +0100 > > > Godefridus Daalmans wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > Jude Nelson posted an

Re: [Dng] Some downgrades may be needed e.g. cups Re: Towards systemd-free packages

2015-02-15 Thread Nikolaus Klepp
Am Dienstag, 3. Februar 2015 schrieb Steve Litt: > On Tue, 03 Feb 2015 16:14:10 +0100 > Godefridus Daalmans wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Jude Nelson posted an enormous rdepends list, of what packages would > > need to be changed for Devuan Jessie,but from my own experimentation > > I concluded that

Re: [Dng] Some downgrades may be needed e.g. cups Re: Towards systemd-free packages

2015-02-15 Thread office
Am Dienstag, 3. Februar 2015 schrieb Steve Litt: > On Tue, 03 Feb 2015 16:14:10 +0100 > Godefridus Daalmans wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Jude Nelson posted an enormous rdepends list, of what packages would > > need to be changed for Devuan Jessie,but from my own experimentation > > I concluded that

Re: [Dng] Some downgrades may be needed e.g. cups Re: Towards systemd-free packages

2015-02-04 Thread Nikolaus Klepp
Am Mittwoch, 4. Februar 2015 schrieb Gravis: > Neo Futur, > why don't the TDE people just submit their packages to Debian? > --Gravis AFAIK debian decided that KDE4 is best for their users and to not support anything that's based on KDE3 including TDE. I remember that I had to use a simillar set

Re: [Dng] Some downgrades may be needed e.g. cups Re: Towards systemd-free packages

2015-02-04 Thread Svante Signell
On Tue, 2015-02-03 at 21:47 -0500, John Holland wrote: > I've been lurking on the list for a bit, this seemed like a good time > to mention I have a repo with .debs for enlightenment 19 for jessie at > www.vin-dit.org. I built and tested them on vm's with systemd removed. > I think they will work w

Re: [Dng] Some downgrades may be needed e.g. cups Re: Towards systemd-free packages

2015-02-04 Thread John Holland
I've been lurking on the list for a bit, this seemed like a good time to mention I have a repo with .debs for enlightenment 19 for jessie at www.vin-dit.org. I built and tested them on vm's with systemd removed. I think they will work without any systemd (at least without anything but what is left

Re: [Dng] Some downgrades may be needed e.g. cups Re: Towards systemd-free packages

2015-02-03 Thread Jude Nelson
Regarding seeing battery levels from the GUI, I currently use fdpowermon. It polls the battery info from sysfs every few seconds via acpi. On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 7:34 PM, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Wed, Feb 04, 2015 at 01:19:26AM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > > Last time I installed MATE in Debi

Re: [Dng] Some downgrades may be needed e.g. cups Re: Towards systemd-free packages

2015-02-03 Thread Gravis
Neo Futur, why don't the TDE people just submit their packages to Debian? --Gravis On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 6:58 PM, Neo Futur wrote: > ( being on the two mailing lists I m cross posting on the TDE mailing > list so they know devuan could be interested in supporting TDE . . . ) > > same here, TDE

Re: [Dng] Some downgrades may be needed e.g. cups Re: Towards systemd-free packages

2015-02-03 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Feb 04, 2015 at 01:19:26AM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > Last time I installed MATE in Debian it was not dependent on *systemd*. > Maybe it is now, I haven't upgraded for some time. In jessie, you need systemd (but not systemd-sysv) for things like shutdown, reboot, suspend or hibernate f

Re: [Dng] Some downgrades may be needed e.g. cups Re: Towards systemd-free packages

2015-02-03 Thread Svante Signell
On Tue, 2015-02-03 at 17:11 -0500, Gravis wrote: > > Never heard of TDE, so I can't compare it to that. > > TDE is "Trinity Desktop Environment" which in reality is just KDE 3, > like MATE is Gnome 2. Last time I installed MATE in Debian it was not dependent on *systemd*. Maybe it is now, I haven

Re: [Dng] Some downgrades may be needed e.g. cups Re: Towards systemd-free packages

2015-02-03 Thread Neo Futur
( being on the two mailing lists I m cross posting on the TDE mailing list so they know devuan could be interested in supporting TDE . . . ) same here, TDE ( kde3 fork reacting to the unstable kde4 bloat ) : * have all the features I expect from a modern window manager * is very stable, even if y

Re: [Dng] Some downgrades may be needed e.g. cups Re: Towards systemd-free packages

2015-02-03 Thread Gravis
> Never heard of TDE, so I can't compare it to that. TDE is "Trinity Desktop Environment" which in reality is just KDE 3, like MATE is Gnome 2. --Gravis On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 5:05 PM, Gordon Haverland wrote: > On Tue, 3 Feb 2015 22:27:43 +0100 > Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > >> When you remove all

Re: [Dng] Some downgrades may be needed e.g. cups Re: Towards systemd-free packages

2015-02-03 Thread Dr. Nikolaus Klepp
> Nik, how reasonable would it be to use TDE without KDE apps? Would > doing so still yield benefits over and above, let's say, Xfce? Does TDE > have any systemd dependencies? > > Thanks, > > SteveT > Oh, I forgot one thing: On TDE you can move windows from desktop to desktop using the pager,

Re: [Dng] Some downgrades may be needed e.g. cups Re: Towards systemd-free packages

2015-02-03 Thread Gordon Haverland
On Tue, 3 Feb 2015 22:27:43 +0100 Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > When you remove all extra stuff from TDE then you end up with a sytem > thats still superior to XFCE. Here on this Gentoo box I set up (moving away from systemd on Debian maybe 9 months ago), I was having trouble installing XFCE without b

Re: [Dng] Some downgrades may be needed e.g. cups Re: Towards systemd-free packages

2015-02-03 Thread Nikolaus Klepp
Am Dienstag, 3. Februar 2015 schrieb Steve Litt: > On Tue, 3 Feb 2015 20:15:50 +0100 > Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > > > Am Dienstag, 3. Februar 2015 schrieb Steve Litt: > > > On Tue, 03 Feb 2015 16:14:10 +0100 > > > Godefridus Daalmans wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > Jude Nelson posted an

Re: [Dng] Some downgrades may be needed e.g. cups Re: Towards systemd-free packages

2015-02-03 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 3 Feb 2015 20:15:50 +0100 Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > Am Dienstag, 3. Februar 2015 schrieb Steve Litt: > > On Tue, 03 Feb 2015 16:14:10 +0100 > > Godefridus Daalmans wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > Jude Nelson posted an enormous rdepends list, of what packages > > > would need to be chang

Re: [Dng] Some downgrades may be needed e.g. cups Re: Towards systemd-free packages

2015-02-03 Thread Nikolaus Klepp
Am Dienstag, 3. Februar 2015 schrieb Steve Litt: > On Tue, 03 Feb 2015 16:14:10 +0100 > Godefridus Daalmans wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Jude Nelson posted an enormous rdepends list, of what packages would > > need to be changed for Devuan Jessie,but from my own experimentation > > I concluded that

Re: [Dng] Some downgrades may be needed e.g. cups Re: Towards systemd-free packages

2015-02-03 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 03 Feb 2015 16:14:10 +0100 Godefridus Daalmans wrote: > Hi, > > Jude Nelson posted an enormous rdepends list, of what packages would > need to be changed for Devuan Jessie,but from my own experimentation > I concluded that it wasn't so bad if we are willing to give up on a > few other t

Re: [Dng] Some downgrades may be needed e.g. cups Re: Towards systemd-free packages

2015-02-03 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 03 Feb 2015 16:14:10 +0100 Godefridus Daalmans wrote: > Hi, > > Jude Nelson posted an enormous rdepends list, of what packages would > need to be changed for Devuan Jessie,but from my own experimentation > I concluded that it wasn't so bad if we are willing to give up on a > few other t

Re: [Dng] Some downgrades may be needed e.g. cups Re: Towards systemd-free packages

2015-02-03 Thread Isaac Dunham
On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 04:14:10PM +0100, Godefridus Daalmans wrote: > Hi, > > Jude Nelson posted an enormous rdepends list, of what packages would need to > be changed for Devuan Jessie,but from my own experimentation I concluded > that it wasn't so bad if we are willing to give up on a few other

Re: [Dng] Some downgrades may be needed e.g. cups Re: Towards systemd-free packages

2015-02-03 Thread Jaromil
On Tue, 03 Feb 2015, Godefridus Daalmans wrote: > Maybe we can make a Wiki page with these kind of middle-ware > packages?? That would be something that many of us can participate > in. I'm in touchwith Nextime who is working hard on the continuous integration and jenkins build pipeline after get

[Dng] Some downgrades may be needed e.g. cups Re: Towards systemd-free packages

2015-02-03 Thread Godefridus Daalmans
Hi, Jude Nelson posted an enormous rdepends list, of what packages would need to be changed for Devuan Jessie,but from my own experimentation I concluded that it wasn't so bad if we are willing to give up on a few other things: - Give up on GNOME for the moment - Accept that a few key packa