On Fri, 11 Oct 2013 09:36:02 +0100, Steven J. Long wrote:

> > It's evolution. Linux has for years been moving in this direction,
> > now it has reached the point where the Gentoo devs can no longer
> > devote the increasing time needed to support what has now become an
> > dge case.  
> 
> Yeah and that's just vague crap without content ;)

I bow to your superior expertise in that field :)

> > So which was it, one specific person or a coven of conspirators? This
> > is open source, secret conspiracies don't really work well. If this
> > really was such a bad move, do you really think the likes of Greg K-H
> > would not have stepped in? Or is he a conspirator too?  
> 
> No he's just a bit naive: he wants to believe the best of people and did
> not realise quite how sneaky Poettering is. No doubt he still doesn't.
> But I'm sure he never foresaw some of their shenanighans, such as
> claiming their newly inserted breakage was the fault of device-drivers
> and everyone should switch to their funky new way of loading modules.
> No-one seemed to think what Torvalds said was incorrect, even if they
> disagreed with his tone.

I don't understand why people keep banging on about Poettering in this,
previously finished, thread. The announcement was made by the OpenRC
maintainer and applies equally to those running eudev as udev. That is,
systems free of that individual's influence. Whatever anyone's opinion of
the way he is taking things, and for the record I don't like systemd,
this is a situation that arose without his help.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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