[darklajid]

Could someone please remove Lennart Poettering

- from the f..ing thread title?

- from the discussion?

That's beyond insane. Leave the man alone. Disagree all you like, but this "Ah, that guy that ruined my life with Pulseaudio is now going to take over other stuff" whining, this crappy attitude _really_ needs to go.

Start arguments against the technology, take part in the projects (-> here, Fedora) and vote against decisions you don't like, but don't start running around with pitchforks.

That's really, really low.

[naquad]

Oh! Indeed we forgot to talk about moral in UNIX-like OS software discussion. Oh my, how could we?..

[darklajid]

You consider 'Remove that person please' a software discussion? In what world?

Did you even discuss software? I see just an attack against a person and some vague anecdotes, "friends complain too", waive hand.

Note that your post is infuriating, but the submission is worse. This thread is why title moderation has a right to exist (for future reference, given that I hope someone's going to fix the title: It was "Lennart Poettering wants to remove syslogd; use systemd journal instead").

[lawl]

Would you tell me what title you'd expect? I honestly don't know what you think is wrong with it. I don't think ranting against the title without providing a reason and/or better suggestion is very constructive.

[darklajid]

I considered that obvious.

"F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog" would be a good choice: It's the subject (both 'the mail header called subject' and 'the subject to discuss') of the thread you linked to.

Rephrasing that a la "Proposal to remove a syslog from Fedora default installations" would be fine.

Dragging a person into the title is just asking for trouble and attacks and serves no purpose. The proposal is technical, the discussion should be technical.

You deliberately put his name into the title. Why? And why just him, not both owners:

Change owner(s): Lennart Poettering, Matthew Miller

You had an agenda, even if it wasn't a conscious decision. That's just wrong (and not constructive either ;-p)

[pbsdp]

I don't really understand what is low about it. Systemd didn't just appear one day; Poettering has written and advocated for it strongly.

[darklajid]

- systemd isn't relevant to the discussion. Fedora already uses systemd (and the journal)

- why in the world would you attack a person for writing software and lobbying for its usage? Even if you don't want to use it? I guess you could attack half of HN in that case

And finally:

- the linked thread is a proposal to remove a single package from the default installation of all Fedora distros. The package is still available for installation, just won't be installed automatically.

That's the topic. Not the person behind the proposal, not the software that is already running on all current Fedora systems. That's just not the point.

I'm a systemd fan, not that happy about journald/journalctl (mostly, because I'm not yet used to it and really just use journalctl -b or journalctl -f, which .. gives not enough benefits to make it 'nice' for me). So - should I insult Lennart, call for his 'removal'?

It's low, because it distracts from the technical subject. Imagine your next proposal at work would lead to a 'Can someone please remove pbsdp' comment. Is there _ever_ a time when such a statement is acceptable? Would that count as taking part in a discussion?

[Tobu]

systemd's philosophy seems to be “bundle everything, attack anything we haven't assimilated”. The source is relevant.

[darklajid]

Really..? 'Attack'?

Again: journal is already part of Fedora, enabled by default and doing its job. The whole discussion is whether a separate syslogd is going to be provided by default. Most people here _love_ Chef/Puppet etc. -> Just override the default and make sure that a syslogd is installed. Done.

Nobody 'attacks' anything. Proponents of one module want to remove a redundancy. That's not an attack.

Anecdote: I happen to know a thing or two about Tomboy (note taking app, written for Mono). Someone thought that Mono is 'teh ev!l' and created GNote, a more or less line by line port of Tomboy to a different language. Some distributions replaced Tomboy with GNote, after being convinced that it's the better choice. That's not an attack, it's potentially lobbying - or just plainly a matter of choice.

[Tobu]

journald was enabled in Fedora very recently, on the premises that no one would feel a thing, just an implementation detail of systemd. Now systemd's syslog compat is seen as unnecessary overhead, and at some point the goalposts will move again and alternatives to the systemd journal won't be supported.

I'm writing this because I've been seeing the same sort of shifting promises when systemd assimilated udev. At first it was a trivial repository merge, just something to make the developers more comfortable, no impact to anyone else. Now building udev without systemd is unsupported, and some “cleanups” are made to tie udev to systemd and kmod. This doesn't benefit systemd but it hurts anyone who uses an alternative.

The same kind of breakage of alternatives is pushed on gnome via logind, and the kernel via cgroups. It would be myopic to focus on promises made in a particular thread and ignore most of systemd's history.

[darklajid]

No offense, but I think you're mistaken.

1) "journald was enabled in Fedora very recently"

systemd includes journald (and - as the thread that this whole discussion is about explains - journald is really a ~hard~ dependency for systemd: That's where early boot messages go, for example).

Systemd is in Fedora for quite some time already [1].

2) "Now systemd's syslog compat is seen as unnecessary overhead"

NO! Not at all! That's going to stay, that's not even mentioned anywhere in this discussion. Really, the thread even talks about improved integration between journald and for example rsyslogd (the latter moved from the simple 'receive log messages from journald' interface to the 'let me ask journald for messages and import them as good as I can' it seems). No one, certainly not in that thread, wants to remove the syslog compatibility.

The discussion is just about _not_ installing a syslog daemon by default. It's still supported, the compatibility (from systemd/journald) is there and going to stay. You just don't run a syslog daemon without installing it explicitly.

3) The trend, what you perceive about the slippery slope of things

This is hard to argue about. There are no hard facts to prove/reject. You don't seem to like a number of recent changes in the linux ecosystem. That's - okay. Natural. But I still think that you should take a step back and reconsider your opinion on the developers' goals: Are they really trying to 'attack' stuff or are they offering something they genuinely consider superior? Are they single-handedly changing the stuff around you, or are boards/committees convinced that these ideas are worth pursuing?

1: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Systemd#What_is_the_status_of...