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| DATE | 2014-10-22 |
| FROM | mrbrklyn@panix.com
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] [ianseeks@yahoo.co.uk: Re: [opensuse] System D: Debian Fork]
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Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 11:07:52 +0100
From: ianseeks
To: opensuse-at-opensuse.org
Subject: Re: [opensuse] System D: Debian Fork
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On Wednesday 22 Oct 2014 00:40:58 Sam M. wrote:
> I came across this article below, and it looks like the System D
> implementation on Debian has caused a great deal of havoc and alienation
> amongst devs and admins, so a fork is potentially in the works. I was
> wondering if a similar interest is also present in the openSUSE community?
> Is openSUSE going to become one huge monolith where practically every
> package is dependent on each other, and, the user is forced into a corner?
> For instance, that atrocious Baloo virus that runs by default on a new KDE
> install will start indexing before you allowed it to, and can't be removed
> because it's dependent on so many things. Part of it can be removed (last I
> checked), but not the entire thing. If things are going to become one big
> monolith, which obviously is contrary to the Unix philosophy, why not just
> run Windows?
>
> It seems like more people than not don't like System D, and Lennart
> Poettering's attitude has been described as rude, egocentric and childish
> which doesn't help the case. PulseAudio was also developed by Pottering,
> and I don't like it at all as it's just one more broken piece of software
> on top of the already overly complex Linux sound stack. I've had problems
> with it, and it has provided me zero benefit. Anyway, I think the System D
> debate here should continue as not everybody here is swallowing the System
> D Kool-Aide.
>
> http://debianfork.org/
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/10/21/unix_greybeards_threaten_debian_fork
> _over_systemd_plan/
Vote with your keyboard and go to a distro that doesn;t use anything you don't
like.
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