[arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 2012-08-13 at 19:11 +0530, gt wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 03:50:16PM +0530, Jayesh Badwaik wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Another flame may start here, but I would like to present the following 
> > as a pure news, no opinions[1]. 
> > 
> > Of course, after reading all the discussions on the mailing lists, my 
> > feeling after reading the link? Mwuhahahaha. 
> > 
> > Important quotes from the link ( which I hope do not alter the context 
> > of the post):
> > 
> > "Well, we intent to continue to make it possible to run udevd outside of
> > systemd. But that's about it. We will not polish that, or add new
> > features to that or anything.
> > 
> > OTOH we do polish behaviour of udev when used *within* systemd however,
> > and that's our primary focus.
> > 
> > And what we will certainly not do is compromise the uniform integration
> > into systemd for some cosmetic improvements for non-systemd systems.
> > 
> > (Yes, udev on non-systemd systems is in our eyes a dead end, in case you
> > haven't noticed it yet. I am looking forward to the day when we can drop
> > that support entirely.)"
> > 
> > [1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2012-
> > August/006066.html
> 
> Lennart Poettering wants to control GNU/Linux, period. And, he has been
> quite effective in furthering his goals through his "great" ideas.
> 
> I see that linus torvalds will have competition pretty soon on who gets
> to be the overlord. Or maybe they can coexist, one in kernel land and
> the other in userspace land ;)

Some time ago I called "Linux" "Lennux".