On 06/03/2014 11:14 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: > > On 03/06/14 18:10, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: >>> Maybe a news item explaining the switch of upower would help those who >>> haven't >>> blundered into this yet. >> Maybe. The thing is, this is going to keep happening, as more and more >> infrastructure migrates towards systemd. Perhaps a news item everytime >> it happens is unrealistic? >> >> I would expect Gentoo users to search for viable solutions by >> themselves, or asking for ways to solve it in the proper channels >> (like Silvio did). > > Yes, thank you. That's exactly how I've seen the situation, but am I > expecting > too much from our users? > > (I think I'll be forced to write up some minimal news item just to shut up > the loud minority who can't be bothered to do anything themselfs, like even > read package ChangeLogs if they stumble upon something manual.) >
If someone is going to change the basic rules and expectations of a system in radical ways it is *not* unreasonable to expect that change to be explained in an easy-to-find way (and not buried in a changelog.) -- G.Wolfe Woodbury
