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From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: newsitem: openrc runscript transition (draft 3)
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 13:58:24
Message-Id: pan$eaf07$fb12971c$29da1675$5f80f450@cox.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: openrc runscript transition (draft 3) by Kent Fredric
1 Kent Fredric posted on Wed, 24 Aug 2016 19:32:05 +1200 as excerpted:
2
3 > On Mon, 22 Aug 2016 17:57:43 -0500 William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
4 > wrote:
5 >
6 >> I thought about dropping the version number from the
7 >> display-if-installed line, but that doesn't make sense because it means
8 >> that everyone, including all new installs of OpenRC after this version,
9 >> would have to read the newsitem.
10 >>
11 >> William
12 >>
13 >>
14 > That concern is in the wrong priority.
15 >
16 > "Your system might break" is more important than "ugh, annoying news
17 > items"
18 >
19 > Viewing the news item once per clean install is still less of a
20 > "Problem" than "everyone with an old system syncs, doesn't get any
21 > warning, upgrades openrc to a version which breaks this, and they brick
22 > their boot"
23
24 If it was a bricking concern, yes, but this isn't about bricking (at
25 least not within the scope of the current news item, and I'd expect
26 another one before runscript is actually removed), it's about warnings
27 that are for the user, harmless but irritating.
28
29 So the priority could arguably be different. Note that I'm not actually
30 saying it is (I haven't actually decided), only that unlike the possible
31 bricking case, it arguably could be, because the possible bricking
32 argument you used for justification doesn't apply.
33
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