Today's Debian technical committee resignation: Ian Jackson

Posted Nov 19, 2014 20:04 UTC (Wed) by yohahn (guest, #4107)
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I wondered if the resolution was too broad but would have more merit in a restricted manner. I did wonder if this is really about defaults and not about packages in general.

If we looked at default install packages like monopolies, i.e. they can exist, but because they wield certain powers they should be regulated a bit more strictly, would we have had as much controversy?

If a package didn't want more regulation it could opt not to be the default.

Just a random thought. I'm still not sure what I think of the whole thing myself. I need to start wrestling with the new debian with systemd before I'll really know.

That said.. I'm just a random sysadmin, not a dev.

Hopefully closure comes.

Today's Debian technical committee resignation: Ian Jackson

Posted Nov 20, 2014 6:09 UTC (Thu) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]

If you are interested in understanding how systemd works etc, I would recommend going through Lennart's blog posts about it starting at the beginning with the initial post about his review of existing init systems. His "systemd For Administrators" blog series is also very interesting.