On Fri, 06 Jan 2012 10:31:14 -0500 Ian Stakenvicius <a...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 06/01/12 04:28 AM, Duncan wrote: > > In it he said he wished he'd introduced systemd with everything on > > /usr in the first place. He sees the mistake now, and prefers to > > correct it while the fewest gentoo users possible are yet using > > systemd. As few are using it at this time and that number is > > likely to grow over time, only making the transition harder, he's > > moving much faster with the change than he'd ordinarily move. > > If that's the case, why not force the breakage now and not install a > symlink?? > > Maybe make this particular systemd update an interactive ebuild if > it's replacing an older version of itself, so it forces users to > actually stop, read, and take action when they do the upgrade? What if user thinks he/she's got the init= update right while, say, forgets to call 'lilo'? Forcing the breakage would mean systemd will fail to boot. Delaying it will just make user see 'you didn't update init=' one more time. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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