On Thu, 12 Feb 2015 12:46:42 -0300
Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI <renaud@???> wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Feb 2015 15:40:33 +0000
> KatolaZ <katolaz@???> wrote:
>
> > Having said that, and besides the fact
> > that I don't understand what you mean by a "temporary fork" (a fork
> > is a fork, it happens at a point in time and unless you can travel
> > back in the past, a fork has to be *permanent* by definition),
> > nobody can decide now whether in the long run Devuan will drift
> > apart from Debian only a bit or substantually.
>
> Fork is permanent only as long as the two branches do not later
> converge and rejoin.
>
> Who knows, maybe the Debian devs will realize they are missing
> something, and integrate the non-systemd in a later release...

But even so, we must continue as a separate community, because without
the existance of Devuan, Debian might later lapse into its "we listen to
Redhat more than our users" mode.

SteveT

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