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Olivier Crête posted on Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:03:32 -0500 as excerpted: |
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> Hi, |
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> On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 20:29 -0500, Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote: |
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>> Negative effects of removing the /bin/systemd symlink on 2021-05-01: an |
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>> unknown number of users who had forgotten to update their grub.conf |
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>> will discover that they can no longer boot their systems. |
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>> I would suggest not removing the symlink unless there is a technical |
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>> reason why its presence is undesirable. |
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> Doing aggressive migrations like that should really be avoided.. But we |
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> know that the real long term solution is to have a /bin -> /usr/bin |
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> symlink. |
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I'm not a systemd user, but I did see his gentoo planet entry on the |
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topic, which explains why he's moving this fast. |
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http://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2012/01/04/moving-systemd-into-usr-the-technical-side/ |
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In it he said he wished he'd introduced systemd with everything on /usr in |
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the first place. He sees the mistake now, and prefers to correct it while |
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the fewest gentoo users possible are yet using systemd. As few are using |
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it at this time and that number is likely to grow over time, only making |
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the transition harder, he's moving much faster with the change than he'd |
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ordinarily move. |
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Keep in mind that at present, systemd has no stable keywords at all, and |
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only amd64 and x86 in ~arch. For gentooers anyway systemd is thus still |
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beta, and he's choosing to move stuff around now while that's still the |
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case, instead of later, after stabilization. Those gentooers using it now |
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are early adopters by definition, and should be ready to deal with this |
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sort of stuff. |
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Given that, the March and June timeframes are IMO PLENTY. IMO, even a |
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mere 30 days would be reasonable for a package at this stage in the |
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process, and he's running a news item and giving them WAY more than that. |
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-- |
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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 |
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