On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 10:40:50PM +0200, emninger@??? wrote:
> Hi Arnt!
>
> Am Mon, 11 Jul 2016 19:07:56 +0000
> schrieb Arnt Karlsen <arnt@???>:
>
> > >
> > > I don't use Slackware because their package manager won't figure out
> > > dependencies for me, causing me to need 10x the time to install some
> > > things (and I install a lot of stuff --- did I ever mention I write
> > > books for a living?).
> >
> > ..so which do you prefer, Slackware wee mess,
> > or being at the mercy of Poettering & Co?
> >
> > > On the other hand, a lot of people I respect (including emninger)
> > > love Slackware specifically because it leaves figuring dependencies
> > > to the user, leading to a relatively dependency-lean environment.
> >
> > ..aye, means you will have to do a _predictable_ wee bit more.
> >
> > ..can we (Devuan) lean on Slackware and alien conversion,
> > at least as a backup plan B to the potential Debian trap?
> >
>
> Recently, i followed, as a silent lurker, a - german - dispute on
> systemd, where frequently intervened Martin Vaeth, who is - IMHO - a
> very reasonable person (author of several open-rc scripts for Gentoo.
> In my poor - and non technical -words, he sustained, that, considering
> the tendency of the systemd people to engulf more and more
> essential/critical processes of the basic boot-up of linux, in a near
> future only a distro like gentoo would have a chance to survive, since
> its process of building (emerge) allows, to avoid the systemd
> jabbawagga [1]. When i read that, i thought, the same should go for
> slackware - in the linux ecosystem (given that they resist to the
> systemd temptation, which seems to be the case ... (?)
>
> ----
>
> 1] I remember a novel of H. P. Lovecraft where there is a monster,
> which, once it'll be awaken it would engulf all the world. I believe to
> remember its name was jabbawagga, but it's only a vague memory ... ;)

Did some searches and found nothing relevant about jabbawagga.

There wsa a being in Lovecraft's mythology with a similar rythmm to its name:
Tsathoggua

But I don't recall anything about Tsathoggua engulfing the world.

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