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On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 1:25 AM, Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:05 PM, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote: |
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>>> As I posted elsewhere, working on a project based on "hate" only lasts |
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>>> so long. I should know, that's the reason I started udev in the first |
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>>> place over 9 years ago. |
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>> The Xfree86 people generated a lot of hate, just like Sievers and |
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>> Poettering. Xorg hasn't burned out yet. |
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> Let's be fair. The Xorg fork was done by a lot of really competent |
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> professional developers who had been developing XFree86 for a long |
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> time. |
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And it was made because it had become almost impossible to work with |
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the main developer of XFree86; not because of hate, but by very clear |
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and valid technical reasons The systemd+udev project instead has code |
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contributed by every major Linux distribution, and many small ones. |
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Even Ubuntu hasn't talked about forking udev, and they keep sending |
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patches, even with their staunch commitment to Upstart. This is what a |
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developer from Arch Linux (which has just made the decision to move to |
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systemd) has to say about it: |
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"... systemd is a cross-distro project: every major and many, many |
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minor distros have had people contributing to systemd. last i heard |
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even two debian devs have commit access to the repo, among many |
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others. systemd upstream is very accommodating of different needs and |
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different use-cases (as long as they are presented on technical |
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grounds) and have been a pleasure to work with so far. We are getting |
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the joint experience of a lot of people/projects who have worked on |
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different init systems for a long time, I think this is one of the |
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most important "features" one could have." |
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https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1149530#p1149530 |
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Seeing some people comparing udev to XFree86 is one of the more |
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bizarre things coming out from this fork, and that's saying. However, |
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I agree with Doug that anyone should code whatever they want to code. |
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Who knows, maybe something interesting would come off from this fork, |
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and it certainly doesn't affect us happy Gentoo+systemd+udev users. |
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Regards. |
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Canek Peláez Valdés |
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Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
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