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William Hubbs wrote: |
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> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 10:55:45PM +0200, Branko Badrljica wrote: |
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>> Main question is NOT whether it works for you, but whether it will break |
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>> stuff on significant percent of other users. |
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>> It broke on my machine, for example, and it was quite disconcerting, |
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>> since it was at quite inconvenient moment and I had note get to any |
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>> shred of documentation about ANY kind of substantial behaviour change of |
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>> new openrc... |
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> The default is to use the old net.ethx style network scripts, which |
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> still work as usual, so, that is why I said that I disagree about there |
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> being a regression. A regression means that something worked before, |
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> but it doesn't now, and that is not the case if you accept the defaults. |
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Which I did. I don't have openrc in /etc/portage/package.use, so it was |
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emerged with default USE flags ( if you count default as in "as set in |
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make.conf" ). emerge -pv openrc woould emerge it as: |
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sys-apps/openrc-0.5.1 [0.4.3-r4] USE="ncurses oldnet%* pam unicode -debug" |
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... which means with "oldnet" flag. |
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And whenever I tried it, it broke my system. |
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> If you accept the defaults and it doesn't work, I will gladly agree that |
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> there is a major regression and the package should be masked. On the |
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> other hand, if the new network scripts do not work, I don't see that as |
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> a show stopper. Yes, I would agree that there should be a warning about |
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> turning off the oldnet use flag, but I don't think this warrants masking |
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> the ebuild, unless I am missing something. If I am, definitely let me |
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> know. |
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I don't feel comfortable with your philosophy. It doesn't matter how |
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obvious matters seem to you, your changes can affect many people in many |
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situations and configurations, not necessarily allways without unforseen |
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consequences. |
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I understand that Gentoo is not for pussies and that you can't make an |
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ISO-9001 procedure for every change with every user, but it would really |
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be nice to have at least some _basic_ safety, like mentioning changes in |
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eselect news, or at least on home page of the package. |