Author: Jim Murphy Date: To: Steve Litt, dng Subject: Re: [DNG] What do we want for ascii ?
On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 11:49 AM, Steve Litt <slitt@???> wrote: > On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 10:29:18 -0400
> Hendrik Boom <hendrik@???> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 12:21:50AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
>> > On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 04:01:33 +0000
>> > Stephanie Daugherty <sdaugherty@???> wrote:
>> >
>> > > I'd like to see a long term focus on removing the entanglement
>> > > with other invasive dependencies, particularly those which are
>> > > likely to be folded into systemd in the future, and on staying
>> > > true to the Unix philosophy.
>> > >
>> > > DBUS and PulseAudio are freedesktop backed technologies which are
>> > > likely to be folded entirely into systemd in the future.
>> >
>> > Unfortunately, long term I think you can add dracut to your list, as
>> > it's part of the Fedora project. This is a shame, because it's the
>> > best initramfs builder utility (from what I understand). But Fedora
>> > scooped it up, and IIRC emptied the old version git repositories,
>> > so I predict a systemdification in the future.
>> >
>> > So we shouldn't assume that dracut will always be available to us.
>>
>> fork it now?
>
> There's one project that Redhat took over and then emptied the git
> repository of older, non-Redhat versions. At the very least, if we can
> get our hands on the older version's source code, get it and keep it.
>