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On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 01:22:59AM +0000, Duncan wrote: |
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> Keeping oldnet the default and only documented method, does seem to be the |
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> most pragmatic/practical solution. |
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> Given nightmorph's indication that he's not interested in redoing the docs |
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> twice, or documenting both methods, that does mean we're keeping oldnet |
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> for the foreseeable future, probably as long as we keep openrc, and |
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> there's no clear/foreseeable plan to migrate from it, so... . |
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> The implication is even if we don't immediately drop newnet support for |
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> those that are already using it, it'll be undocumented, untested for |
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> network package bumps, and therefore unsupported. In practice, anything |
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> in /that/ status eventually dies, so by implication, a decision to make |
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> oldnet the default and only documented version ultimately means newnet |
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> will become less and less practical to run as it requires more and more |
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> specific installation support and workarounds to keep it up and running. |
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> However, if we keep newnet around as a masked USE flag until it's no |
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> longer worth continuing, it'll give people already using it time to switch |
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> back, and/or to build up their own site scripts as workarounds, as newnet |
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> gradually gets more and more stale and broken. |
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It won't be "masked", it just won't be the default setup, and you will |
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have to do some work that will not be documented to turn it on. |
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> Finally, I'm not sure it absolutely needs it, but for clarity-sake and to |
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> avoid second-guessing and debate continuing long past the point of |
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> usefulness, I believe a council vote on the issue is appropriate. I don't |
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> know where we are in the meeting cycle, but it seems to me that barring |
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> some special-case exception, a vote in 10 days or so should be plenty of |
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> time for folks to make their opinions known, so the first meeting after |
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> that looks to be appropriate for a vote, to me. |
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If we keep oldnet as the default, there is nothing for the council to |
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vote on as far as I can see, because stable users are covered in the |
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migration guide at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openrc-migration.xml. |
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If they follow that path, there is nothing special they need to do |
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outside of that, so there isn't any affect. |
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William |
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