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Autore: Didier Kryn
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To: dng
Oggetto: Re: [Dng] Devuan foundational philosophy: was greets

Le 10/03/2015 15:51, Steve Litt a écrit :
> On Mon, 9 Mar 2015 18:19:56 +0000
> KatolaZ<katolaz@???> wrote:
>
>
>> >Devuan is the final name (at the moment! :P) and is really
>> >happening. It is a fork of Debian with the clear intention of creating
>> >and maintaining a Debian in which init freedom is guaranteed (which
>> >initially will boil down to eradicate systemd and all its companions
>> >from Debian).
> Hi KatolaZ,
>
> Naturally, my crystal ball is no better than anybody else's, but my
> prediction is that as time goes on, Devuan's intention will become a
> more generalized superset of init freedom. I'm predicting that in the
> long run, it will become DIY freedom, with emphasis on small, standard
> parts with known, thin interfaces.
>
> Of course, systemd was the most glaring and urgent threat to DIY
> freedom, so we need to purge that silliness immediately, but I think
> we'll eventually go farther. As a matter of fact, my understanding is
> our default DE will be Xfce, not Gnome: A fact that will doubtlessly
> cause hand-wringing amongst those believing in the tightly-glued,
> unified system.


     As a DIY fan, I support fully this vision. Further more, I think 
the concept of DIY-friendlyness, matches the principles of free software 
pretty well, to the point it could be used as a policy-checker. Eg:


Is Systemd DIY-friendly? --> No,  therefore accept it only in non-free 
repository.
Is Systemd anti-DIY?     --> Yes, therefore eradicate it.


     Didier