On Thu, 13 Mar 2014 07:59:55 +0800
Patrick Lauer <patr...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 03/13/2014 12:52 AM, William Hubbs wrote:
>
> Why deprecate it?
>
> I'm getting really irritated with the current trend of randomly
> renaming and movearounding things. All it does is confuse people,
> break existing setups and make documentation splitbrained (now you
> need to document two things, and half the old docs won't be aware of
> it ...)
>
> So I guess it boils down to "What does the /usr movearounding gain
> us", err, what does renaming bits of OpenRC improve?
>
> The best explanations so far I've seen are "it's nicer", "we've
> already done it" and "eh mate, why not? is groovy"
>
> > If Gentoo needs the symlink after it is removed from OpenRc, I think
> > that is the time we can talk about putting it in gentoo-functions.
>
> Now that is funny, but why move it away just so that users panic and
> re-add the wrong flavour of it?
>
> Well, progress I guess: If you change enough things in trivial ways
> you can claim innovation and show a great rate of change ("I'm not
> dead yet!")
>
I would say it's because library code such as that really does not
belong in /etc and placing it there in the first place was a mistake.
This is an attempt to correct the mistake without just breaking
everything without warning.
