[Arm-netbook] Logging and journaling

[Paul Boddie]

On Thursday 9. February 2017 21.23.19 Jonathan Frederickson wrote:
> I agree with Julie here. If you tell users you're providing Debian, it
> should be stock Debian (or as close as possible as is needed to
> support the hardware). Likewise for every other distro.

I agree with Jonathan and Julie here. ;-)

Let the distinction between Debian and Devuan be the means by which people 
choose to run systemd or not. After all, that is more or less the reason why 
there are two such distributions rather than one. [*]

By all means indicate why you do not agree with systemd, but instead of making 
more work for yourself, may I respectfully suggest that you just let people 
switch their order from Debian to Devuan if they agree with you now, perhaps 
not having thought about the matter before?

And let people switch the other way (or to something else) if they agree with 
your view of Devuan and actually want the option of having systemd from first 
power-on. As for people who agree with you on both systemd and Devuan's 
attitude towards it, I guess you could just see if this affects anyone who 
placed an order.

Paul

[*] There are supposedly improvements in the distribution-building process 
with Devuan, which I thought could be of interest to various libre 
distributions - removing unwanted packages and content is what they do, after 
all - but the documentation isn't that great for any of these distributions in 
informing what the possibilities might be.