Re: [DNG] Brief OpenRC/Jessie Discussion on the linux-elitists lists

2016-05-19 Thread Daniel Reurich
On 20/05/16 09:26, Svante Signell wrote: > On Wed, 2016-05-18 at 06:26 -0400, Boruch Baum wrote: >> On 2016-05-18 12:11, Svante Signell wrote: ... >>> I'm listed as a co-maintainer of openrc (as well as ifupdown). >>> However, due to >>> the hostile environment in Debian I'm reluctant to do an

Re: [DNG] Brief OpenRC/Jessie Discussion on the linux-elitists lists

2016-05-19 Thread Svante Signell
On Wed, 2016-05-18 at 06:26 -0400, Boruch Baum wrote: > On 2016-05-18 12:11, Svante Signell wrote: > > > ... > > I'm listed as a co-maintainer of openrc (as well as ifupdown). > > However, due to > > the hostile environment in Debian I'm reluctant to do any serious > > work on these > > packages, e

Re: [DNG] Brief OpenRC/Jessie Discussion on the linux-elitists lists

2016-05-18 Thread Boruch Baum
On 2016-05-18 12:11, Svante Signell wrote: > > ... > I'm listed as a co-maintainer of openrc (as well as ifupdown). However, due to > the hostile environment in Debian I'm reluctant to do any serious work on > these > packages, except contributing to RC bugs being solved, to keep them in > testin

Re: [DNG] Brief OpenRC/Jessie Discussion on the linux-elitists lists

2016-05-18 Thread Svante Signell
On Tue, 2016-05-17 at 13:38 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 09:27:43PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > > > > > > > I sincerely wish the remedy of installing openrc and pinning systemd > > > would work, but I'm sure it won't on the mid-long term. > > It obviously can't. The same

Re: [DNG] Brief OpenRC/Jessie Discussion on the linux-elitists lists

2016-05-17 Thread Joel Roth
Adam Borowski wrote: > ...the word "pirate", > originally a bandit and murderer (and in places like Somalia, still current!) > yet nowadays its more widespread meaning is "culture spreading activist"[1] > (not just copyright, also, eg, radio), a term of pride for many of us. However, it is worth n

Re: [DNG] Brief OpenRC/Jessie Discussion on the linux-elitists lists

2016-05-17 Thread dev
On 05/17/2016 06:45 AM, emnin...@riseup.net wrote: Please do not take my question wrong (probably i am missing something): If it's that way, how can devuan then rely on debian as for packages etc.? At least in a forseeable future ... ? Good question. Devuan and Debian are growing apart (as J

Re: [DNG] Brief OpenRC/Jessie Discussion on the linux-elitists lists

2016-05-17 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 17 May 2016 14:11:49 +0200 Jaromil wrote: > On Tue, 17 May 2016, emnin...@riseup.net wrote: > > > Am Mon, 16 May 2016 13:41:14 + > > schrieb dev : > > Please do not take my question wrong (probably i am missing > > something): If it's that way, how can devuan then rely on debian as

Re: [DNG] Brief OpenRC/Jessie Discussion on the linux-elitists lists

2016-05-17 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 17 May 2016 14:33:03 +0200 Jaromil wrote: > On Tue, 17 May 2016, Adam Borowski wrote: > > > On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 09:27:43PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > > > > I sincerely wish the remedy of installing openrc and pinning > > > > systemd would work, but I'm sure it won't on the mid-l

Re: [DNG] Brief OpenRC/Jessie Discussion on the linux-elitists lists

2016-05-17 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 17 May 2016 09:15:08 +0100 KatolaZ wrote: > On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 09:44:35PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: [snip Steve Litt's anti-Debian community rant] > It might be due to my natural attitude, which forbids me from spitting > into the same plate I have been eating until 2 minutes ago,

Re: [DNG] Brief OpenRC/Jessie Discussion on the linux-elitists lists

2016-05-17 Thread Simon Hobson
emnin...@riseup.net wrote: > Please do not take my question wrong (probably i am missing something): > If it's that way, how can devuan then rely on debian as for packages > etc.? At least in a forseeable future ... ? The thing is that Debian is already there, pretty well complete, and the major

Re: [DNG] Brief OpenRC/Jessie Discussion on the linux-elitists lists

2016-05-17 Thread Jaromil
On Tue, 17 May 2016, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 09:27:43PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > > I sincerely wish the remedy of installing openrc and pinning > > > systemd would work, but I'm sure it won't on the mid-long term. > > It obviously can't. The same Debian leadership who v

Re: [DNG] Brief OpenRC/Jessie Discussion on the linux-elitists lists

2016-05-17 Thread Jaromil
On Tue, 17 May 2016, emnin...@riseup.net wrote: > Am Mon, 16 May 2016 13:41:14 + > schrieb dev : > > > Very well spoken. Debian leadership has demonstrated it's disinterest > > in remaining "Free". There is another motive driving Debian > > development now and Systemd will end up being the co

Re: [DNG] Brief OpenRC/Jessie Discussion on the linux-elitists lists

2016-05-17 Thread Adam Borowski
Another example, intentionally not systemd related: If you use any of: backups, snapshots, nfs, etc, you'd want to have all per-user "no data loss on failure/deletion" files in a common dir, such as ~/.cache, to make it easy to exclude or bind-mount. Currently, such caches are strewn around hundr

Re: [DNG] Brief OpenRC/Jessie Discussion on the linux-elitists lists

2016-05-17 Thread emninger
Am Mon, 16 May 2016 13:41:14 + schrieb dev : > Very well spoken. Debian leadership has demonstrated it's disinterest > in remaining "Free". There is another motive driving Debian > development now and Systemd will end up being the core of Debian. To > remove it will only mean uninstalling the

Re: [DNG] Brief OpenRC/Jessie Discussion on the linux-elitists lists

2016-05-17 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 09:27:43PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > I sincerely wish the remedy of installing openrc and pinning systemd > > would work, but I'm sure it won't on the mid-long term. > > It obviously can't. The same Debian leadership who voted "no" (or was > it "we don't need no steenkin

Re: [DNG] Brief OpenRC/Jessie Discussion on the linux-elitists lists

2016-05-17 Thread KatolaZ
On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 09:44:35PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: [cut] > > What I'm about to say is barely germane to what you two both said, but > I'll say it anyway. > > I *never* felt comfortable in the Debian community, even before the > "systemd thing". Those people were mean. They were arrogan

Re: [DNG] Brief OpenRC/Jessie Discussion on the linux-elitists lists

2016-05-16 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 16 May 2016 08:26:11 -0500 dev wrote: > On 05/16/2016 05:12 AM, Jaromil wrote: > > To all those who think this and other similar approaches may > > invalidate the need of our fork: please consider we are not just > > forking Debian because of systemd, but because the people who have > > t

Re: [DNG] Brief OpenRC/Jessie Discussion on the linux-elitists lists

2016-05-16 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 16 May 2016 12:12:20 +0200 Jaromil wrote: > On Mon, 16 May 2016, emnin...@riseup.net wrote: > > > As for the rest, i'd be interested in what you think about the > > content of that discussion. > > I think it minimizes the problem systemd brings to Debian and the > problem the current

Re: [DNG] Brief OpenRC/Jessie Discussion on the linux-elitists lists

2016-05-16 Thread dev
On 05/16/2016 05:12 AM, Jaromil wrote: To all those who think this and other similar approaches may invalidate the need of our fork: please consider we are not just forking Debian because of systemd, but because the people who have taken over the leadership of that distro have betrayed its mand

Re: [DNG] Brief OpenRC/Jessie Discussion on the linux-elitists lists

2016-05-16 Thread Edward Bartolo
Hi, I think, it is not about the term "linuxmafia" offending our feelings but rather the bad connotations it brings with Linux. Linux is exactly the opposite of oppression and abuse: Linux is about freedom. Edward On 16/05/2016, Jaromil wrote: > On Sun, 15 May 2016, Steve Litt wrote: >> Rick ha

Re: [DNG] Brief OpenRC/Jessie Discussion on the linux-elitists lists

2016-05-16 Thread Jaromil
On Sun, 15 May 2016, Steve Litt wrote: > Rick has held the linuxmafia.com domain since at least 1999: thanks for the explanation Steve. I'm airing a personal irritation which is almost two decades old, as I used linuxmafia.org back when I was using Slackware and Debian didn't even existed. I'm gla

Re: [DNG] Brief OpenRC/Jessie Discussion on the linux-elitists lists

2016-05-16 Thread Edward Bartolo
Hi, Jaromil wrote: << some of us are from places in which that word means prevarication, violence, misery and corruption. I've never been entertained by such a name, not even when it was about slackware packages. very bad taste. >> +Infinity Edward On 16/05/2016, Jaromil wrote: > On Mon, 16 Ma

Re: [DNG] Brief OpenRC/Jessie Discussion on the linux-elitists lists

2016-05-16 Thread Jaromil
On Mon, 16 May 2016, emnin...@riseup.net wrote: > As for the rest, i'd be interested in what you think about the > content of that discussion. I think it minimizes the problem systemd brings to Debian and the problem the current Debian leadership has with its own constituency. I sincerely wish th

Re: [DNG] Brief OpenRC/Jessie Discussion on the linux-elitists lists

2016-05-16 Thread KatolaZ
On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 11:39:38AM +0200, emnin...@riseup.net wrote: > As for me, i understand those who are hurted by the use of the term > mafia (one half of my family is from "there" ;) ), but i also > understand the may be improper but innocent use of that term in > a different social and cultu

Re: [DNG] Brief OpenRC/Jessie Discussion on the linux-elitists lists

2016-05-16 Thread emninger
As for me, i understand those who are hurted by the use of the term mafia (one half of my family is from "there" ;) ), but i also understand the may be improper but innocent use of that term in a different social and cultural context. May be it's a good way to try to understand the reasons of the

Re: [DNG] Brief OpenRC/Jessie Discussion on the linux-elitists lists

2016-05-16 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 08:03:58AM +0100, KatolaZ wrote: > On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 08:38:26PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Mon, 16 May 2016 01:18:34 +0200 > > Florian Zieboll wrote: > > > On Sun, 15 May 2016 23:22:07 +0200 > > > Jaromil wrote: > > > > prevarication, violence, misery and corrup

Re: [DNG] Brief OpenRC/Jessie Discussion on the linux-elitists lists

2016-05-16 Thread KatolaZ
On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 08:38:26PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Mon, 16 May 2016 01:18:34 +0200 > Florian Zieboll wrote: > > > On Sun, 15 May 2016 23:22:07 +0200 > > Jaromil wrote: > > > > > prevarication, violence, misery and corruption > > > > Depending on one's personal history, > > Let

Re: [DNG] Brief OpenRC/Jessie Discussion on the linux-elitists lists

2016-05-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 16 May 2016 01:18:34 +0200 Florian Zieboll wrote: > On Sun, 15 May 2016 23:22:07 +0200 > Jaromil wrote: > > > prevarication, violence, misery and corruption > > Depending on one's personal history, Let me say it succinctly: I think Rick probably meant something like "toughguys" or "

Re: [DNG] Brief OpenRC/Jessie Discussion on the linux-elitists lists

2016-05-15 Thread Florian Zieboll
On Sun, 15 May 2016 23:22:07 +0200 Jaromil wrote: > prevarication, violence, misery and corruption Depending on one's personal history, there are many more possibilities to associate these characteristics with: church, (political) executive, family... just to name a few of them. Personally, I'

Re: [DNG] Brief OpenRC/Jessie Discussion on the linux-elitists lists

2016-05-15 Thread Daniel Reurich
On 16/05/16 10:26, Steve Litt wrote: > On Sun, 15 May 2016 23:22:07 +0200 Jaromil wrote: > >> On Sun, 15 May 2016, marc wrote: >> >>> http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Debian/openrc-conversion.html >> >> what's wrong with these guys to call themselves linuxmafia? >> >> some of us are from places in whi

Re: [DNG] Brief OpenRC/Jessie Discussion on the linux-elitists lists

2016-05-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 15 May 2016 23:22:07 +0200 Jaromil wrote: > On Sun, 15 May 2016, marc wrote: > > > http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Debian/openrc-conversion.html > > what's wrong with these guys to call themselves linuxmafia? > > some of us are from places in which that word means prevarication, > violence,

Re: [DNG] Brief OpenRC/Jessie Discussion on the linux-elitists lists

2016-05-15 Thread Jaromil
On Sun, 15 May 2016, marc wrote: > http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Debian/openrc-conversion.html what's wrong with these guys to call themselves linuxmafia? some of us are from places in which that word means prevarication, violence, misery and corruption. I've never been entertained by such a name, no