Re: embrace, extend, extinguish
On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 04:05:53PM CEST, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> said:
> On Tuesday 02 September 2014 14:52:46 Joe wrote:
> > On Tue, 2 Sep 2014 23:44:49 +1200
> >
> > Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 07:22:48AM +0000, KD wrote:
> > > > Dan Ritter <dsr <at> randomstring.org> writes:
> > > > > Reading:
> > > > > http://0pointer.net/blog/revisiting-how-we-put-together-linux-systems
> > > > >.html
> > > > >
> > > > > systemd's upstream is explicitly interested in taking over all
> > > > > Linux distros, not in the minor sense of being supported on
> > > > > every system but in the major sense of making package management
> > > > > conform to their own views.
> > > >
> > > > There's one sentence in the cited article I really like:
> > > > "I originally intended to discuss this at the Linux Plumbers
> > > > Conference (which I assumed was the right forum for this kind of
> > > > major plumbing level improvement), and at linux.conf.au, but there
> > > > was no interest in my session submissions there..."
> > >
> > > At least he had the good sense to not even consider discussing it on
> > > the debian-user mailing list.
> >
> > So is this vision of the future not likely to affect Debian, then? I
> > get the impression it is expected to do so.
>
> This endless verbosity will not make one iota of difference. Lobby those who
> might be able to do something if you feel like it, e.g. the developers. But
> it really doesn't count as support for users of Debian.
Is it so difficuklt to think that users and admin may have a word to
say about the direction they prefer for the evolution of debian ? Are
they not free to express what they feel abiout announcements like this
article ?
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