Steve Litt <slitt@???> wrote:

> Which brings us full circle. Simon doesn't want to keep playing these
> games, wondering what kind of workaround he'll need next, as Lennart
> decides to subsume yet another Linux functionality, or Debian's "DDs"
> make yet another poor decision on dependencies. So he chose to go with
> the fork.
>
> I don't have the tech chops to know all the various ways Lennart can
> screw up my life, nor do I have the technical chops to know (without
> huge experimentation) how to work around Lennart's latest incursion. I
> know the incursions will keep on coming, so why in the world would I
> subject myself to them? Therefore, to my limited ability, I help the
> guys who made the fork, and recommend the fork to those not compatible
> with Void or Funtoo or PC-BSD (and most Linux users aren't compatible
> with those).

What he said :-) ^^^

> And then there's this: I don't know anything about Simon's feelings,
> but Debian's actions of 2014 disgust me. For me, continuing to use
> Debian is an impossibility. Stupid technology comes and goes, but
> betrayal is forever. They got arrogant, they got forked, and the
> resulting Devuan community is one of the best I've ever belonged to.

And that. Except it's not so much disgust, but disappointment - that a distro which had such high regard should allow itself to be dragged down this route.