From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F2861389E2 for ; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 11:44:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8EA82E089C; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 11:44:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-1.ca.inter.net (mail-1.ca.inter.net [208.85.220.69]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9F041E07E1 for ; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 11:44:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (offload-3.ca.inter.net [208.85.220.70]) by mail-1.ca.inter.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 045352EAA4A for ; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 06:44:03 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail-1.ca.inter.net ([208.85.220.69]) by localhost (offload-3.ca.inter.net [208.85.220.70]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id pMBWjBRfJKdO for ; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 06:44:02 -0500 (EST) Received: from ca.inter.net (host-104-157-133-48.dyn.295.ca [104.157.133.48]) by mail-1.ca.inter.net (Postfix) with SMTP id ACA622EAA44 for ; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 06:44:01 -0500 (EST) Received: by ca.inter.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 30 Nov 2014 06:44:01 -0500 Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 06:44:01 -0500 From: Philip Webb To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Debian forked, because of systemd brouhaha Message-ID: <20141130114401.GD1045@ca.inter.net> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <547A572B.2000601@marc-stuermer.de> <547A7A89.1000606@iinet.net.au> <513c7cea44e305cbbf943fb0ad40ebff@marc-stuermer.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <513c7cea44e305cbbf943fb0ad40ebff@marc-stuermer.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.22 (2013-10-16) X-Archives-Salt: b72de679-0e4f-4d30-8864-061743ee5531 X-Archives-Hash: 80ce81d8a446d5348874d6e58528c449 141130 Marc Stürmer wrote: > The point though is that the way this fork was being announced is quite > simple the worst way to do it. The announcement was not signed by any > name and just made by someone named "Majordomo Debianfork." Not that's > why I do call a bad way to start such a project and building trust. > > Then they are already asking for donations. Yes, of course such a > project has the need for donations, true. But would you send someone money > where you've got no clue whom you are giving it? I won't. > > So until they are going to publish a list of names about who's behind > this project I for myself am just going to think about it as a more or > less nice reminder to the Debian community about that a nother fork with > the implicit goal to eliminate Systemd would quite quickly gain much > momentum and speed. The goal of such a prank? To make the people think > about it and change their opinion that this would not happen. A rather shrewd analysis ; the name 'Devuan' adds to my suspicions. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca