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Re: A few observations about systemd



On Mon, 2011-07-18 at 11:34 +0100, Jon Dowland wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 12:13:02PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Jon Dowland, le Mon 18 Jul 2011 10:35:30 +0100, a écrit :
> > > 3. drop kfreebsd (and HURD and others)
> > 
> > 3 basically means dropping "Universal" from Debian, and replace it with
> > "Linux".
> 
> I seem to recall "Universal" existing long before a non-Linux port.  I don't
> interpret "Universal" as meaning "more than one kernel", nor Debian's heart
> to be the userland in exclusivity.

What's more, neither of the 'ports' to other kernels increases hardware
support.

I fundamentally disagree with the idea that all our packages must avoid
relying on certain features because some developers want to experiment
with FreeBSD (which already has a Linux emulation layer) or Hurd (a
long-running joke) and they are lacking these features.  This doesn't
serve users, it serves those developers.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Absolutum obsoletum. (If it works, it's out of date.) - Stafford Beer

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