From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752381AbaHMKVP (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Aug 2014 06:21:15 -0400 Received: from mondschein.lichtvoll.de ([194.150.191.11]:44813 "EHLO mail.lichtvoll.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752050AbaHMKVO convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Aug 2014 06:21:14 -0400 From: Martin Steigerwald To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= Cc: Peter Zijlstra , Steven Rostedt , Christopher Barry , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: OT: Open letter to the Linux World Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 12:21:12 +0200 Message-ID: <14520506.bM73iQ1YOy@merkaba> User-Agent: KMail/4.15 pre (Linux/3.16.0-tp520-fixcompwrite+; KDE/4.13.3; x86_64; git-411eff3; 2014-08-11) In-Reply-To: References: <20140812153812.2923046a@monolith.infinux.org> <2838655.H5W5zNkR37@merkaba> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Am Mittwoch, 13. August 2014, 10:57:01 schrieb Måns Rullgård: > Martin Steigerwald writes: > > Am Mittwoch, 13. August 2014, 10:27:56 schrieb Peter Zijlstra: > >> On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 11:07:05PM +0100, Måns Rullgård wrote: > >> > Steven Rostedt writes: > >> > > Nice rant, I sympathize with you (just complaining about this on G+). > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > Made my day. > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > I'm just waiting for Linus to get pissed enough to write his own init > >> > > routine. Maybe he'll call it "Boot Init Through Computer Hardware". > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > The trouble is that most of the heavy-weight kernel developers don't > >> > seem to care at all about what goes on in userspace. > >> > >> > >> > >> Well, I know for a fact that quite a number do; but so far most people > >> who care have been able to steer clear of this trainwreck so we did. > >> > >> > >> > >> I'm about to switch all my machines to Gentoo (from Debian) because that > >> will indeed allow you to build a distro without much of this nonsense > >> in -- because as has been eloquently said; you simply don't need this > >> fucking shite to run a 'normal' machine. > >> > >> > >> > >> And the thing is; we're all very busy so we tend to take the 'easy' way > >> out for things like this; but wholesale switching all my machines is > >> indeed painful, and I'm not liking. > > > > Just for record: > > > > Debian continues and will (for now and supposedly Jessie lifetime) > > continue to work without systemd as PID 1 using systemd-shim and > > cgmanager. > > For now. Non-systemd configurations will receive little testing, if > any. Once enough breakage accumulates, someone will issue an ultimatum > for dropping such support entirely unless those who complain fix > everything within an unreasonably short time. Obviously most things > will remain broken, because those who opposed systemd are not package > maintainers and have other jobs to do, and non-systemd support will be > removed. I expect this to happen in unstable/testing within 18 months. I usually do not engage in predictions of the future, you know… my crystal ball has holidays. -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7