On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 07:12:45AM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 1:09 AM, Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > > it would be nice to come up with some level of automated conversion. no > > matter how much we say "read the docs", there will always be people who do > > not. i think the reason the openrc upgrade has gone so smooth thus far is > > because how much we've done to auto-migrate settings. > > > > True, but wouldn't any further improvement in migration be essentially > fixing the barn doors after the horses have left? What percentage of > our users are still running baselayout-1 now? The fact that things > have gone fairly smoothly suggests to me that further investment in > migration code isn't going to yield much benefit.
I tend to agree with this angle. I do not see any reason to change the migration code; we should have done that before we took OpenRc stable if we were going to imho. > I'd just leave it > all alone for a few months or whatever to let people finish migrating > and then start triggering deprecation warnings. In fact, there is no > reason to not generate deprecation warnings now - when openrc > migration is still fresh in everybody's minds. I agree more with this than attempting to do a migration. I will look into getting deprecation warnings into the code. William
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