[arch-general] Proposal: add "--disable-modern-top" to procps-ng configure flags

Ralf Mardorf silver.bullet at zoho.com
Sat Dec 9 18:08:49 UTC 2017


On Sat, 9 Dec 2017 17:47:19 +0000, Jonathon Fernyhough wrote:
>On 09/12/17 17:31, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>> On Sat, 9 Dec 2017 17:19:22 +0000, Jonathon Fernyhough wrote:  
>>> Just because something was "done" two years ago doesn't mean there's
>>> not a better way of doing it.  
>> 
>> I guess you read [1] and [2].   
>
>Yes.
>
>Two people reply to the list who use or package their own alternative
>version because of the aggro of suggesting changes to packages when,
>e.g., upstream might not care or upstream's decisions might not be a
>one-size-fits-all.
>
>While this is devolving into
>https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Code_of_conduct#Ineffective_discussion_.28.22bikeshed.22.29,
>if people are actually afraid to post I'd suggest that might be
>something to look at.
>
>
>J
>
>(Yes, I'm done now ;)

As already pointed out off-list. Take things with a good sense of black
humour! C'mon! It's nearly impossible to find a more useless default,
than the PID 1 systemd tree and without the slightest doubt everybody is
aware of this.


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