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From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: openrc runscript transition (draft 3)
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 17:07:41
Message-Id: 20160824170704.GA25523@whubbs1.gaikai.biz
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: openrc runscript transition (draft 3) by Kent Fredric
1 On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 07:32:05PM +1200, Kent Fredric wrote:
2 > On Mon, 22 Aug 2016 17:57:43 -0500
3 > William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 > > I thought about dropping the version number from the
6 > > display-if-installed line, but that doesn't make sense because it means
7 > > that everyone, including all new installs of OpenRC after this version,
8 > > would have to read the newsitem.
9 > >
10 > > William
11 > >
12 >
13 > That concern is in the wrong priority.
14 >
15 > "Your system might break" is more important than "ugh, annoying news items"
16 >
17 > Viewing the news item once per clean install is still less of a "Problem" than
18 > "everyone with an old system syncs, doesn't get any warning, upgrades openrc to
19 > a version which breaks this, and they brick their boot"
20
21 This will not break anyone's boot. It just tells you a fast way to get
22 rid of some annoying messages. This is more an informational newsitem
23 than a warning because people will complain about the messages.
24
25 I do not plan to drop runscript at this point, that will happen when
26 openrc-1.0 is released, which will be a while yet.
27
28 William

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Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: openrc runscript transition (draft 3) Thomas Deutschmann <whissi@g.o>