Re: [Dng] What about pulseaudio, avahi, ... ?

2015-04-02 Thread Jack L. Frost
On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 09:25:00PM +0200, toto titi wrote: > Hi Guys, > and thank you to all of you for this fork. > Do you plan to get rid of pulseaudio and avahi as well, or do you just > focus on systemd ? What are your problems with pulse being in the repos? It doesn't force dependencies on it

Re: [Dng] What about pulseaudio, avahi, ... ?

2015-04-02 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
On Thu 02 April 2015 13:09:41 Jack L. Frost wrote: > On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 09:25:00PM +0200, toto titi wrote: > > Hi Guys, > > and thank you to all of you for this fork. > > Do you plan to get rid of pulseaudio and avahi as well, or do you just > > focus on systemd ? > > What are your problems w

Re: [Dng] What about pulseaudio, avahi, ... ?

2015-04-02 Thread Jack L. Frost
> devuan is not about depoetterizing, it's about freedom of choice. Since > systemd deprives user from his freedom to choose init system (and a lot of > other subsystems) it has to go. For the rest devuan doesn't care - as long as > it doesn't as well introduce conflicts with alternative package

Re: [Dng] [dng] vdev status update

2015-04-02 Thread Linux O'Beardly
>Given the fraction of replies you got so far devoted to the puppy >(100%) and to the technical content (0%), I suspect this community's >hearts are in the right place. >-- hendrik ^ +1 Linux O'Beardly @LinuxOBeardly http://o.beard.ly linux.obear...@gmail.com On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 11:45 AM, H

Re: [Dng] What about pulseaudio, avahi, ... ?

2015-04-02 Thread Joel Roth
On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 01:47:17PM +0300, Jack L. Frost wrote: > > devuan is not about depoetterizing, it's about freedom of choice. Since > > systemd deprives user from his freedom to choose init system (and a lot of > > other subsystems) it has to go. For the rest devuan doesn't care - as long

Re: [Dng] Devuan philosohy

2015-04-02 Thread Linux O'Beardly
Great list! Thanks everybody for your input, because for those of us who aren't programmers, this helps clarify a lot of the reason why systemd is less than ideal from a technical perspective. I'm more of a "if I can't read it or write it in vi or manipulate it via a bash script, then it doesn't

Re: [Dng] What about pulseaudio, avahi, ... ?

2015-04-02 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 07:15:38AM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: On my system, reverse depends for pulseaudio shows such packages as mpg123, which shouldn't have an opinion about But mpg123 neither depends on nor recommends pulseaudio. It only suggests pulseaudio together with jackd, alsa-utils and

Re: [Dng] What about pulseaudio, avahi, ... ?

2015-04-02 Thread Joel Roth
On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 07:28:27PM +0200, Stephan Seitz wrote: > On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 07:15:38AM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > >On my system, reverse depends for pulseaudio shows such > >packages as mpg123, which shouldn't have an opinion about > > But mpg123 neither depends on nor recommends pulse

Re: [Dng] Another reason of why I am considering Devuan

2015-04-02 Thread T.J. Duchene
> -Original Message- > From: Adam Borowski [mailto:kilob...@angband.pl] > Sent: Wednesday, April 1, 2015 9:41 PM > To: dng@lists.dyne.org > Subject: Re: [Dng] Another reason of why I am considering Devuan > > On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 08:38:07PM -0500, T.J. Duchene wrote: > > [T.J. ] To b

Re: [Dng] What about pulseaudio, avahi, ... ?

2015-04-02 Thread toto titi
I do not have any problem at the present time. It's just that I don't like the programmes written by LP. I don't trust him. I don't want Linux to become a new W1nd0w$. He's obfuscating the system's behaviour. On 04/02/2015 12:09 PM, Jack L. Frost wrote: > On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 09:25:00PM +0200

Re: [Dng] Another reason of why I am considering Devuan

2015-04-02 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 8:52 PM, T.J. Duchene wrote: > DNS calls are nonspecific > data, associated only with your carrier's dynamic IP address, not a specific > user. Where i come from ISP's dynamic IP lease times are *very* long, you need to reboot the home router to get a new IP and even then y

Re: [Dng] What about pulseaudio, avahi, ... ?

2015-04-02 Thread Joel Roth
On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 10:34:00PM +0200, toto titi wrote: > I do not have any problem at the present time. It's just that I don't > like the programmes written by LP. > I don't trust him. I don't want Linux to become a new W1nd0w$. > He's obfuscating the system's behaviour. That could be a wiki a

Re: [Dng] What about pulseaudio, avahi, ... ?

2015-04-02 Thread Chris Kalin
Avahi going away, or at least not being a requirement for CUPS, would be nice. (Or a cups-noavahi). I'm running a corporate network with statically defined printers, I don't need or want my print server trying to autodetect anything. Chris Kalin Sr. Network Engineer "Leading Upward Mobility"

[Dng] What do you guys think about "Suggest" and "Recommends" dependency?

2015-04-02 Thread Franco Lanza
Personally on debian i was using from date APT:Install-Recommends "0"; APT:Install-Suggests "0"; in all my install apt.conf. I don't like apt downloading and installing things that are not required but just recommended or suggested, expecially in server or embedded envs, but also on my desktop.

Re: [Dng] What do you guys think about "Suggest" and "Recommends" dependency?

2015-04-02 Thread Jude Nelson
I'm all for it. If there are a set of packages that usually get installed together, we can create a metapackage for them. -Jude On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 6:36 PM, Franco Lanza wrote: > Personally on debian i was using from date > > APT:Install-Recommends "0"; > APT:Install-Suggests "0"; > > in al

Re: [Dng] What do you guys think about "Suggest" and "Recommends" dependency?

2015-04-02 Thread hellekin
On 04/02/2015 07:36 PM, Franco Lanza wrote: > Personally on debian i was using from date > > APT:Install-Recommends "0"; > APT:Install-Suggests "0"; > > What do you think if we make this the default in devuan? > *** +1. I'm all for minimalism in Devuan, and encouraging people to use Blends for e

Re: [Dng] What do you guys think about "Suggest" and "Recommends" dependency?

2015-04-02 Thread T.J. Duchene
> -Original Message- > From: Franco Lanza [mailto:next...@nexlab.it] > Sent: Thursday, April 2, 2015 5:36 PM > To: dng@lists.dyne.org > Subject: [Dng] What do you guys think about "Suggest" and "Recommends" > dependency? > > Personally on debian i was using from date > > APT:Install-Rec

Re: [Dng] What about pulseaudio, avahi, ... ?

2015-04-02 Thread Isaac Dunham
On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 09:27:36AM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 07:28:27PM +0200, Stephan Seitz wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 07:15:38AM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > > >On my system, reverse depends for pulseaudio shows such > > >packages as mpg123, which shouldn't have an op

Re: [Dng] Another reason of why I am considering Devuan

2015-04-02 Thread T.J. Duchene
> > Where i come from ISP's dynamic IP lease times are *very* long, you need to > reboot the home router to get a new IP and even then you may get the > same IP. It's not that dynamic, at all. Add that with data your browser > provides, your *.google.com in|direct usage, etc... it's easy to correl

[Dng] X and GPUs

2015-04-02 Thread Gordon Haverland
I briefly looked over a threaded list of the many topics that I haven't read, and none seem to address this. Originally, the reason people bought graphics cards (or better graphics cards) was to improve graphics performance. Which to a dinosaur like me means X11 and X servers. I am slowly learni

Re: [Dng] Another reason of why I am considering Devuan

2015-04-02 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
On Thu 02 April 2015 20:30:23 T.J. Duchene wrote: > > Where i come from ISP's dynamic IP lease times are *very* long, you need > > to > > reboot the home router to get a new IP and even then you may get the > > same IP. It's not that dynamic, at all. Add that with data your browser > > provides, yo