On Dienstag, 13. Oktober 2009, Markos Chandras wrote: > > I agree with Nirbheek. You should always provide an updated documentation ( > and a news item if necessary ) when you release a new major update of such > core packages. I would like to see new openrc masked until the > documentation is ready with full details about the transition to the new > network init script. > If you don't provide such documentation in time, you will fail to make > users switch to new init script in the near future, since everybody will > forget about this and will use the 'oldnet' use flag anyway. > The sooner you will explain them how to migrate, the better > results/feedback/updated systems you will get >
You are right. If I want everybody to switch to new net init script. But do I want that? I still use the old one, as I think it is more powerful. The old scripts will not be dropped in medium future if it does not break stuff. By the way I am no official maintainer of openrc, still caring about it and fixing stuff if it annoys me or I have too much of free time. About the new scripts in general: Do we consider them already good enough and stable enough to recommend (non power-)users to transition? Regards Matthias
