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Kent Fredric posted on Wed, 24 Aug 2016 19:32:05 +1200 as excerpted: |
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> On Mon, 22 Aug 2016 17:57:43 -0500 William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> |
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>> I thought about dropping the version number from the |
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>> display-if-installed line, but that doesn't make sense because it means |
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>> that everyone, including all new installs of OpenRC after this version, |
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>> would have to read the newsitem. |
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>> William |
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> That concern is in the wrong priority. |
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> "Your system might break" is more important than "ugh, annoying news |
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> items" |
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> Viewing the news item once per clean install is still less of a |
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> "Problem" than "everyone with an old system syncs, doesn't get any |
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> warning, upgrades openrc to a version which breaks this, and they brick |
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> their boot" |
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If it was a bricking concern, yes, but this isn't about bricking (at |
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least not within the scope of the current news item, and I'd expect |
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another one before runscript is actually removed), it's about warnings |
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that are for the user, harmless but irritating. |
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So the priority could arguably be different. Note that I'm not actually |
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saying it is (I haven't actually decided), only that unlike the possible |
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bricking case, it arguably could be, because the possible bricking |
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argument you used for justification doesn't apply. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |