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From: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: UPower upstream (git master) and 0.99 release -> No sys-power/pm-utils support anymore
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 14:51:33
Message-Id: 538DE061.8090405@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: UPower upstream (git master) and 0.99 release -> No sys-power/pm-utils support anymore by "Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn"
1 On 03/06/14 17:45, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote:
2 > Samuli Suominen schrieb:
3 >> On 03/06/14 16:53, Rich Freeman wrote:
4 >>> So, I get why you did it, but my concern is that when you tell
5 >>> portage that non-systemd users shouldn't use this package, portage
6 >>> helpfully solves that problem by turning all the non-systemd users
7 >>> into systemd users, instead of switching them to the alternative that
8 >>> works without systemd.
9 >> Portage doesn't do anything on it's own, surely it needs an admin to accept
10 >> or reject the changes
11 > I disagree. It would have been straightforward to create a transitional
12 > package sys-power/upower-10000 which makes openrc users transition to
13 > sys-power/upower-pm-utils and systemd users to sys-power/upower-systemd
14 > or something similar.
15
16 No, it wouldn't have, because 0.99.0 is the superior version to which
17 we are all working towards and 10000 would have superceded it
18 And 0.99.0 is for both, systemd and openrc users

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