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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: bash arrays in OpenRC
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:55:15
Message-Id: CAJaTeTruyP7G-Eyo+dVNJaY4GAi+JWovd-sO9hEc05hrKUtynw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: bash arrays in OpenRC by Rich Freeman
1 On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 07:12, Rich Freeman wrote:
2 > On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 1:09 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
3 >> it would be nice to come up with some level of automated conversion.  no
4 >> matter how much we say "read the docs", there will always be people who do
5 >> not.  i think the reason the openrc upgrade has gone so smooth thus far is
6 >> because how much we've done to auto-migrate settings.
7 >>
8 >
9 > True, but wouldn't any further improvement in migration be essentially
10 > fixing the barn doors after the horses have left?  What percentage of
11 > our users are still running baselayout-1 now?
12
13 baselayout-1 vs openrc isnt the issue. it's bash array support vs
14 flat strings. the former is supported in baselayout-1, and should be
15 supported in openrc. William is talking about dropping support from
16 openrc and i've laid out the way to get from here to there.
17 -mike

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