Re: [gentoo-dev] tmpfiles: call for testers

[Michał Górny]

On Tue, 8 Nov 2016 17:41:02 -0600
William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:

> All,
>
> as part of bug 599044 [1], I have  created a tmpfiles project which is a
> standalone utility to handle systemd style tmpfiles.d files.
>
> There is currently a live ebuild in the tree, but I haven't done any
> releases yet.
>
> Take a look at it, and anything about it is open for discussion at this
> point.
>
> The name is a bit vague, but honestly I couldn't figure out a better
> name. I don't really want openrc in the name, because this is meant to
> be more generic than  that; it is not meant to require OpenRC to run.
> OpenRC will use it, but not the other way around.

opentmpfiles? tmprc? :-D

> If you see any bugs, now is also the time to let me know before any
> releases are out.
>
> The plan, once the first release is out, is to rewrite this utility in a
> better language. I'm considering C, but if I am comfortable by that time
> in Go or Rust, I may use one of them.

Sounds like a good way to lose 95% [1] of users.

[1]: Note: it's just a random approximation. It may be underestimated.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny
<http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>