[ale] Debian fork thoughts?

[Solomon Peachy]

On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 06:51:26PM -0500, James Sumners wrote:
> Really? I'll let the comments on [1] do most of the talking. I wanted to
> link the article that post is about, but the article author changed the
> content. It originally detailed how you'd have to install systemd to
> install Jessie, and then jump through some hoops to get it removed after OS
> install.

Systemd is *default* in Jessie, so of course it's installed and running 
unless you say otherwise; but it's not intended to be automatically 
enabled if you're upgrading an older system -- if it happens, file a 
bug, that's what release freezes are for!

So, if you don't like systemd to be running, turn it off and uninstall 
(most of) it -- It's a simple apt-get command.  

Continuing on, If you are objecting to libraries remaining on the hard 
disk, you might as well be complaining that you need e2fsprogs installed 
when you don't have any ext2/3/4 filesystems -- because the libaries are 
used by other tools and it had to be enabled at compile time or not at 
all.

Sure, one could mangle everything to load every potential feature and 
dependency at runtime, but that's a lot of work to save a couple hunded 
kilobytes of disk space at a time.  You're welcome to do it if it means 
that much to you; I'm sure deb package maintainers will happily accept 
patches.  Otherwise everyone has much has better things to do.  Like 
knocking out actual bugs in Jessie.

 - Solomon
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Solomon Peachy        		       pizza at shaftnet dot org
Delray Beach, FL                          ^^ (email/xmpp) ^^
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