On Tuesday, June 03, 2014 04:45:36 PM Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote:
> Samuli Suominen schrieb:
> > On 03/06/14 16:53, Rich Freeman wrote:
> >> So, I get why you did it, but my concern is that when you tell
> >> portage that non-systemd users shouldn't use this package, portage
> >> helpfully solves that problem by turning all the non-systemd users
> >> into systemd users, instead of switching them to the alternative that
> >> works without systemd.
> > 
> > Portage doesn't do anything on it's own, surely it needs an admin to
> > accept
> > or reject the changes
> 
> I disagree. It would have been straightforward to create a transitional
> package sys-power/upower-10000 which makes openrc users transition to
> sys-power/upower-pm-utils and systemd users to sys-power/upower-systemd
> or something similar.
> 
> And please keep such changes out of stable until proper documentation is
> in place (and the 30 day period has elapsed, etc.)

+1

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