Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

[Fabio Erculiani]

On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o> wrote:
> On 1 May 2013 18:04, Fabio Erculiani <lxnay@g.o> wrote:
>> It looks like there is some consensus on the effort of making systemd
>> more accessible, while there are problems with submitting bugs about
>> new systemd units of the sort that maintainers just_dont_answer(tm).
>> In this case, I am just giving 3 weeks grace period for maintainers to
>> answer and then I usually go ahead adding units (I'm in systemd@ after
>> all).
>
> In my opinion you should not be asking maintainers to add systemd
> units to their packages. They most likely do not have systems on which
> they can test these, and very few users would need them anyway. I

> would think it is better to add them to a separate systemd-units
> package.

This sounds really wrong (tm) to me. It took me two weeks to kill that
silly systemd-units pkg.
All the distros around here do install systemd units with their
packages and I believe that the council has already spoken about this.

>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> Ben | yngwin
> Gentoo developer
> Gentoo Qt project lead, Gentoo Wiki admin
>



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Fabio Erculiani