On 11 December 2011 21:42, Michael Orlitzky <mich...@orlitzky.com> wrote: > On 12/11/2011 01:10 PM, James Broadhead wrote: >> >> >> I didn't take this email at face value when I read it earlier, but I >> just merged my openrc-0.9.7 config file. >> Wow, what a cynical move. > > > It's not cynical. If you put a cool-sounding option in there with a comment > that says "this will delete all of your documents," some idiot (i.e. me) is > probably going to enable it. > > Parallel doesn't work correctly, and it shouldn't be enabled unless you're > looking for fun ways to break stuff.
It's worked for me ever since I switched all of my machines to OpenRC a year+(?) ago. "We broke it, so let's just remove the comments about it" _is_ a cynical response. >> Perhaps someone could do some performance testing on rc_parallel to >> find out if it's worth fighting for as a feature. > The directive still exists, it's just been removed from the default rc.conf. > > This prevents people from thinking "well, parallel is better than not > parallel, so I'm gonna enable it." I should know, most of my machines still > have it enabled and that was the extent of the research I did. Parallel _is_ better than Not Parallel - at least in general. I was proposing some concrete testing rather than data-less complaining, or allowing it to be brushed under the rug
