Re: Preliminary Funtoo report
On Tue 23 Sep 2014 at 10:59:32 -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Sep 2014 10:08:35 +0100
> Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> wrote:
>
> >
> > Dear Steve,
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 07:57:37PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> > > Funtoo is most famous for a permanent ban on systemd.
> >
> > As interesting as your OS experiments are, I do wonder whether
> > debian-user is the right place to be writing about them. Have you
> > considered blogging?
>
> Blogging *is* a good idea. I'll consider that. Thanks.
I knew you had a considerate streak in you and wanted to release us from
the contant barrage of advocating other distributions and various bits
and pieces of your favorite software.
> Debian-User is very much one of the right places to put this, because a
> substantial chunk of users of Debian are looking for an escape route.
>
> And look at it another way: If I or anybody else succeeds in mapping out
> a route to a practical systemd-free environment, and the systemd
> antifans go there, then Debian-user's systemd fans and agnostics can
> have a quieter mailing list. Discussions of escape routes now could
> lead to peace later for those not objecting to a systemd [enabled |
> cursed] Debian.
And then you bring disillusionment. You promise peace and harmony when a
highly unlikely objective is achieved. At least we know where the list
stands; we have to await and rely on someone conjuring up some mish-mash
to replace a competent init system in order to return the list to its
pre-advocacy condition. We are all held hostage to the ideas of a few.
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