Dnia 2014-03-13, o godz. 07:59:55
Patrick Lauer <patr...@gentoo.org> napisał(a):

> On 03/13/2014 12:52 AM, William Hubbs wrote:
> 
> >>> No, I don't think gentoo-functions should take over the symbolic
> >>> link in /etc/init.d/functions.sh; that needs to stay with OpenRc.
> >>> My plan there is to work that into a script that prints a warning
> >>> message. It will stay that way until openrc-1.0. OpenRc upstream
> >>> uses semantic versioning [2]. This means that as long as we are at
> >>> 0.x we have to keep things backward compatible.
> >>>
> >>
> >> ...why not?  As you've said yourself, nothing related to openrc uses
> >> /etc/init.d/functions.sh; if everything else in the tree is going to
> >> use the new gentoo-functions "lib", why wouldn't custom end-user
> >> scripts too?
> >>
> >> (again, scanned the bug, didn't see anything relevant to this)
> > 
> > The relevance is that /etc/init.d/functions.sh is currently part of
> > OpenRc's public API, and semantic versioning has a very specific
> > description of how to deprecate functionality.
> 
> 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 ...)

See: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/3357

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny

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