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From: Jeroen Roovers <jer@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] openrc portage news item
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 02:34:54
Message-Id: 20110421043416.24277b15@epia.jer-c2.orkz.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] openrc portage news item by Jeroen Roovers
1 On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 04:23:19 +0200
2 Jeroen Roovers <jer@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > I have converted all my systems to baselayout-2/openrc now, and on all
5 > of them, the very /last/ message shown after the emerge run is that
6 > "[x] important configuration files [in /etc]" need to be updated.
7 >
8 > I would think that Gentoo users are already primed to this message and
9 > that they would respond accordingly. Even when it's dozens of packages
10 > you have updated, this message should stand out, because it's
11 > basically the first one you read scrolling back up.
12
13 Adding to that, the appropriate response is to not file a bug report or
14 complain otherwise, but to bow your head in shame, bring the system up
15 with some kind of boot medium and chroot in to run your favourite /etc
16 updating tool, then reboot cleanly and be running again.
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19 jer