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On Monday, September 20, 2010 13:49:08 Joshua Saddler wrote: |
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> Wrong. It will. The GDP--that's effectively just me--will already have to |
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> rewrite every single one of hundreds of pages of documentation to allow |
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> for the new syntax and way of doing things present in the "oldnet" |
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> behavior of OpenRC. That's ~weeks to ~months of work, even if there's |
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> someone besides me doing it. I'll have to do all that effort and time |
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> commitment yet again if we have to rewrite everything once "newnet" |
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> becomes the default after everyone uses "oldnet" for a while. |
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man, fix your line length. what a nub you are. |
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> Please. Just stick to *one* config. I strongly suggest that it be "oldnet," |
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> given all the problems with "newnet" raised in this thread. But more |
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> importantly, because *the groundork has already been done* when I wrote |
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> the OpenRC Migration Guide. I can piggyback all my efforts off that guide, |
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> which will greatly shorten the amount of time needed for the rest of the |
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> documentation. Otherwise a completely new "migration" guide will have to |
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> be written, AND all the docs will need to be adjusted to THAT one. |
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we're going with oldnet by default in stable and that'll be what the GDP has |
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to worry about. newnet will still be there, but people will have to manually |
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opt out of oldnet and opt in to newnet. i dont think we need to worry about |
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documenting it in the handbook for now ... the bundled files with openrc are |
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sufficient. |
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-mike |