On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 20:29:53 -0500 Alexandre Rostovtsev <tetrom...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-01-06 at 00:52 +0100, Michał Górny wrote: > > 3) a symlink is installed at /bin/systemd to ensure that current > > init= specifications are still valid. > > > > Please note that these features will be removed after the > > transitional period and users upgrading afterwards will have to > > manually ensure correctness of their installations. The former two > > features will be removed on 2012-03-01, the last one on 2012-05-01. > > Positive effects of removing the /bin/systemd symlink on 2021-05-01: > saves one inode in the root fs. > > Negative effects of removing the /bin/systemd symlink on 2021-05-01: > an unknown number of users who had forgotten to update their > grub.conf will discover that they can no longer boot their systems. > > I would suggest not removing the symlink unless there is a technical > reason why its presence is undesirable. The symlink is distro-specific. Honestly, I'd get rid of it sooner -- but almost four months seem to be a safe period considering that we are still in 'testing' stage mostly. I'll add greps for the few common config files and 'ps' check in the ebuild after the migration. I can also add a 'die' after that date. Keeping backwards compatibility files for the lifetime is never a good solution. It just makes users lazy, and right now using systemd under Gentoo requires some abilities anyway. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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