From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QvxfF-0004Ji-HM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 23 Aug 2011 20:33:37 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 93B6C21C288; Tue, 23 Aug 2011 20:33:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EE5121C040 for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2011 20:32:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwf25 with SMTP id 25so508669wwf.10 for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:32:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=YkPUuEBEV/dF5jpOkTrmXnQx/NKeNrGxMG1atHrCy1U=; b=qksLekUcx36Ly5inFwQVYLahOJHUETDMwa0LFIGdpuYK778s2XOAqsFrTwgh52CEmM nVBhKSN7Yeg7sSGT67DdmkZZMozfiS9yEj5A+XozGa66xapbzd9ulYVb42i/1ClUJVuX JlsF7N78f99093cGgiC+OJUmhFIo3jv8XmYco= 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 Received: by 10.216.71.76 with SMTP id q54mr3697860wed.83.1314131547812; Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:32:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.30.193 with HTTP; Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:32:27 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <3292731.ELGxhL7QDp@nazgul> References: <4E4C2CC4.6080604@xunil.at> <10047113.P4fhB6gBS3@nazgul> <3292731.ELGxhL7QDp@nazgul> Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:32:27 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] systemd From: =?UTF-8?B?Q2FuZWsgUGVsw6FleiBWYWxkw6lz?= To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 205d3d7c2d68ad277746d54da580a613 On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Alan McKinnon wr= ote: > On Tue 23 August 2011 15:50:24 Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s did opine th= usly: >> On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Alan McKinnon > wrote: >> > On Tue 23 August 2011 15:06:25 Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s did opine > thusly: >> >> > Now if it had similarities to say hal, I would instantly >> >> > understand. But dbus is good and useful in all the ways >> >> > that >> >> > hal isn't. >> >> >> >> Wasn't. HAL is dead. From >> >> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/hal >> > >> > Sadly, HAL is not yet dead. It lives still. >> > >> > It lives on the production database server I just happen to be >> > rebooting as I type this (another story for another time) and >> > will continue to live here for a very very long time indeed. >> > >> > Dale can confirm this. Dale will swear in a court of law with >> > hand on bible than hal lives on in zombie form, infesting all >> > the matter of his house and computers, infecting them with >> > their undead zombieness. >> > >> > Ye gods, it's been a long hard day.... >> >> I remember getting rid of HAL in one weekend, from all my computers. >> It was a long weekend, but it was not as bad as getting rid of Qt >> from all the computers in my office some years ago. > > Come to my work place, I have the perfect task for you: > > to excise perl-5.8.0 from all the many machines it's on, plus the > atrocious in-house coding using it that no-one left understands, and > all running on hardware that no-one can replace. Been there, done that. One of the reasons I got back to school to get my Computer Science PhD. Regards. --=20 Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingenier=C3=ADa de la Computaci=C3=B3n Universidad Nacional Aut=C3=B3noma de M=C3=A9xico