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From: "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] openrc stabilization update
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 23:39:04
Message-Id: 4C97F063.9080000@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] openrc stabilization update by Mike Frysinger
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4 On 09/20/2010 02:32 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
5 > On Monday, September 20, 2010 13:49:08 Joshua Saddler wrote:
6 >> Wrong. It will. The GDP--that's effectively just me--will already have to
7 >> rewrite every single one of hundreds of pages of documentation to allow
8 >> for the new syntax and way of doing things present in the "oldnet"
9 >> behavior of OpenRC. That's ~weeks to ~months of work, even if there's
10 >> someone besides me doing it. I'll have to do all that effort and time
11 >> commitment yet again if we have to rewrite everything once "newnet"
12 >> becomes the default after everyone uses "oldnet" for a while.
13 >
14 > man, fix your line length. what a nub you are.
15 >
16 >> Please. Just stick to *one* config. I strongly suggest that it be
17 "oldnet,"
18 >> given all the problems with "newnet" raised in this thread. But more
19 >> importantly, because *the groundork has already been done* when I wrote
20 >> the OpenRC Migration Guide. I can piggyback all my efforts off that guide,
21 >> which will greatly shorten the amount of time needed for the rest of the
22 >> documentation. Otherwise a completely new "migration" guide will have to
23 >> be written, AND all the docs will need to be adjusted to THAT one.
24 >
25 > we're going with oldnet by default in stable and that'll be what the
26 GDP has
27 > to worry about. newnet will still be there, but people will have to
28 manually
29 > opt out of oldnet and opt in to newnet. i dont think we need to worry
30 about
31 > documenting it in the handbook for now ... the bundled files with
32 openrc are
33 > sufficient.
34 > -mike
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36 +1
37
38 I'm not even worried about documenting newnet. I just don't want it
39 thrown out of openrc. Leaving it in the background is fine.
40
41 - --
42 Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D.
43 Gentoo Developer
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