Of course this goes to a General Resolution

Posted Feb 11, 2014 21:18 UTC (Tue) by rodgerd (guest, #58896)
In reply to: Of course this goes to a General Resolution by dlang
Parent article: The Debian technical committee vote concludes

No-one is forcing you to to systemd. You can run Slackware (although Patrick is talking about possibly moving). You can use LFS. You can eschew DEs that decide running on unmaintained code like ConsoleKit is a bad choice in favour of ones which don't, or you can use DEs that don't provide that functionality.

What you can't do ise demand that the Magic Code Fairies and Rainbow Distribution Ponies work on a bunch of code they've given up on because you want them to.

Of course this goes to a General Resolution

Posted Feb 12, 2014 17:55 UTC (Wed) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129) [Link] (4 responses)

> although Patrick is talking about possibly moving
Now this sounds interesting. When and where did he say that?

Of course this goes to a General Resolution

Posted Feb 12, 2014 20:40 UTC (Wed) by rodgerd (guest, #58896) [Link] (3 responses)

Let me see if I can dig it out...

"It's hard to say whether moving to these technologies would be a good thing for Slackware overall. Concerning systemd, I do like the idea of a faster boot time (obviously), but I also like controlling the startup of the system with shell scripts that are readable ... With udev being phased out in favor of systemd performing those tasks we'll have to make the decision at some point between whether we want to try to maintain udev ourselves, have systemd replace just udev's functions, or if we want the whole kit and caboodle."

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/interviews-28/int...

It's not something he's particularly enthusiastic about, but may do anyway.

Of course this goes to a General Resolution

Posted Feb 12, 2014 21:29 UTC (Wed) by jspaleta (subscriber, #50639) [Link] (2 responses)

He seems to be laboring under some misinformation.

The snippet concerning "replacing udev functions" is a red flag concerning the amount of misinformation he's already digested from somewhere. It's going to be extremely hard for him to make a good informed decision if he's relying on factually incorrect information.

Of course this goes to a General Resolution

Posted Feb 12, 2014 22:26 UTC (Wed) by rodgerd (guest, #58896) [Link] (1 responses)

Bear in mind that's an interview from 2012, when the udev discussion was still fresh and emotive.

Of course this goes to a General Resolution

Posted Feb 12, 2014 22:30 UTC (Wed) by jspaleta (subscriber, #50639) [Link]

noted.

-jef