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On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 12:48:11AM -0400, Greg Woodbury wrote: |
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> To answer Alan's question - the main fault lies on the GNOME project and |
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> the forcing for systemd down user's systems throats. |
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> Additionally, as certina things were added to Linux to "enhance" |
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> capabilities, the GNOME developers (apparently) *deliberately* placed |
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> the programs in /usr/bin, instead of in the generally accepted place of |
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> /bin. |
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> Alan is correct - there is a deliberate cause of this debacle. Certain |
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> folks (Lennart being one of many) *are* cramming their vision of Linux |
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> on the whole community. |
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> I have read severl folks defending their ignoring of the old protocol of |
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> placing boot-required programs in /bin (and hence on root) as being |
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> holdovers from "ancient history" and claiming that disk space is so |
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> cheap these days that it "isn't necessary" to keep this distinction. |
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> As a result of the GNOMEish forcing, some distros have even gone so far |
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> as to *do away* with /bin - and have placed everything in /usr/bin with |
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> compatibility symlinks as a holdover/workaround. |
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> I lay this at the feet of GNOME, and thus, at the feet of RedHat. |
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> Linux used to be about *choice* aand leaving up to the users/admins |
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> about how they wanted to configure their systems. But certain forces in |
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> the Linux marketplace are hell-bent on imitating Microsoft's "one way to |
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> do it" thinking that they are outdoing the "evil empire's" evilness. |
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> I fully understand systemd and see that it is a solution seeking a |
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> problem to solve. And its developers, being nearly identical with the |
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> set of GNOME developers, are forcing this *thing* on the Linux universe. |
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> Certainly, the SystemV init system needed to have a way of |
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> *automagically/automatically* handling a wider set of dependencies. When |
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> we wrote if for System IV at Bell Labs in 1981 or so, we didn't have the |
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> time to solve the problem of having the computer handle the dependencies |
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> and moved the handling out to the human mind to solve by setting the |
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> numerical sequence numbers. (I was one of the writers for System IV |
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> init while a contractor.) |
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> OpenRC provided a highly compatible and organic extension of the system, |
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> and Gentoo has been happy for severl years with it. But now, the same |
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> folks who are thrusting GNOME/systemd down the throats of systems |
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> everywhere, have invaded or gained converts enought in the Gentoo |
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> structure to try and force their way on Gentoo. |
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> Gentoo may be flexible enough to allow someone to write an overlay that |
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> moves the necessary things back to /bin (and install symlinks from |
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> /usr/bin to /bin) so that an initrd/initramfs is not required. But I |
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> suspect that Gentoo and many distributions are too far gone down the |
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> path of deception to recover. |
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> Neil and other may disagree with this assessment, but I saw it coming |
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> and this is not the first time it has been pointed out - and not just by me. |
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> Who knows though? I may just have to abandon prepared distributions |
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> completely and do a Linux From Scratch solution, or fork some distro and |
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> tey to undo the worst of the damage. |
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> -- |
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> G.Wolfe Woodbury |
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> redwolfe@×××××.com |
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And that, folks, is the best and most accurate summary I've read to date. |
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Thank you, sir, for stepping up to the plate. |
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A friend of mine has his own Linux distro (has for a long time), and explained |
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this to me some time ago. He's not effected by this. |
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Bruce |
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. |
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