Re: [gentoo-dev] Concerns about WIPE_TMP change

[Mike Frysinger]

On Saturday 19 January 2008, Stefan de Konink wrote:
> Mike Frysinger schreef:
> > On Saturday 19 January 2008, Roy Marples wrote:
> >> On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 02:48 +0100, Stefan de Konink wrote:
> >>> In my opinion WIPE_TMP should be in the same state
> >>> as RC_PARALLEL_STARTUP.
> >>
> >> That's a fair point.
> >
> > how ?  these two options are not related in the slightest.
>
> Because both options should be enabled manually under the presumption if
> one knows what one is doing. Potential dataloss vs Potential boot
> problems, I think that is the same ball park.

as Roy points out, parallel startup is stabilized which means it will be 
enabled by default

WIPE_TMP had already been moved to yes by default in baselayout-2, i just got 
tired of waiting

i can add an elog, but the arguments for not turning it on by default are far 
from convincing
-mike