[arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

[Brandon Watkins]

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Ralf Mardorf
<ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net>wrote:

> On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 09:46 -0600, Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 05:05:14PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > > Mailman archives! IIRC Heiko mentioned that there are more disputes
> > > about Lennart Poettering and his software on ALL mailing lists, than
> > > about anything else.
> > >
> > > Why is it like that?
> >
> > Probably because he has all the arrogance of DJB but none of the skill.
>
> I had to google, I never heard about Daniel J. Bernstein before. I
> suspect DJB is for Daniel J. Bernstein?
> If so, he seemingly isn't as half as arrogant as LP.
>
> Btw. my Arch Linux is absolutely stable, excepted of one change. I
> tested Network Manager, this software is not that good. However, IIUC
> switching back to netcfg which always was stable on my machine might
> cause issues, when not using systemd?!
>
> Sorry, I'm not an expert.
>
> Regards,
> Ralf
>
> Netcfg works fine without systemd, if you are referring to the recent news
item that said "netcfg is dropping initscripts compatibility", thats just
poorly titled, netcfg simply no longer supports having its config option in
rc.conf.