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Re: Let's have a vote!



Ahoj,

Dňa Thu, 25 Sep 2014 10:42:58 -0400 (EDT) Rob Owens <rowens@ptd.net>
napísal:

> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Steve Litt" <slitt@troubleshooters.com>
> > 
> > On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 13:13:51 -0400 (EDT)
> > Rob Owens <rowens@ptd.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "The Wanderer" <wanderer@fastmail.fm>
> > > > 
> > > > On 09/22/2014 at 06:54 AM, Darac Marjal wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Those are votes for Debian, but not for systemd, or for "Debian
> > > > with systemd as central".
> > > > 
> > > > In the case at hand, the latter two are what people are asking
> > > > to be able to have a vote (or at least meaningful input other
> > > > than making noise) on, by virtue of being users who will be
> > > > affected by the decision rather than by virtue of doing work to
> > > > implement the decision.
> > > 
> > > I think the best voting method at this time is popularity-contest.
> > > Make sure you have PARTICIPATE set to "yes".
> > > 
> > > Of course the vote is stacked somewhat in favor of systemd-sysv,
> > > since it is the default and in some cases unavoidable due to
> > > dependencies of desktop software.  So all of the "systemd-sysv"
> > > votes in popularity-contest represent either:
> > > 
> > > 1) people who prefer systemd-sysv
> > > 2) people who got systemd-sysv as a result of dependencies of
> > > installing a package that they really do want 3) people who don't
> > > care enough to switch away from the default, or 4) people who
> > > aren't aware of the options, don't know what an init system is,
> > > etc.
> > > 
> > > -Rob
> > 
> > That's not really a true choice. There are a lot of other init
> > programs out there, any one of which could be voted for. There's
> > the position "let's wait until we have a good init to move to",
> > which is very different from "let's use sysvinit". There's no place
> > to write in an "other".
> > 
> Steve,
> 
> Popularity-contest simply keeps track of what packages are installed
> on a user's system.  So unless you install an init system from
> source, your "vote" would be counted.  (To be clear, I'm not sure if
> it would be counted if you installed a third-party package).

But for the systemd too, due dependencies...

-- 
Slavko
http://slavino.sk

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