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On 10/14/2013 10:46 AM, Richard Yao wrote: |
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> My main concern is that some of the configure flags being proposed could |
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> make packages that worked on Gentoo FreeBSD stop working there. I am not |
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> making changes, but I think that there should be some benefit and that |
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> care should be taken not to break things for everyone else. |
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> That being said, mgorny said that this adds support for mount |
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> namespaces, but I have yet to hear an explanation of what that actually |
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> means. What are the use cases? |
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Someone brought to my attention that there was a slight error in the |
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above message. I had meant to write "I am not against making changes..." |
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rather than "I am not making changes...". |
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In hindsight, the statement that "I am not making changes" was a more |
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profound statement than the one that I meant to write because it can be |
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interpreted in any of two ways: |
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1. It could be interpreted as meaning that I intend to oppose proposed |
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changes when they have no benefit and I have the ability to oppose them. |
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2. It could be interpreted as meaning that I am not one of the people |
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who make decisions for the packages involved. Consequently, my opinion |
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here only matters to the extent that those who make decisions are |
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willing to consider it. |
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Both of which are correct. That being said, I am not against making |
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changes, but given that this is on the list, I would like to someone to |
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provide a technical justification. Some key questions that justification |
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should answer are "what capability does this provide to sysytemd that |
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cannot be obtained without this change? and "what does that do for |
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users"? So far, the only thing that I have read is "systemd wants it", |
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which answers neither question. |
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