On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 4:47 PM, Raymond Jennings <shent...@gmail.com> wrote: > The guys making the API change bear the burden of fixing anything it breaks, > however, if something gets officially deprecated, don't go out of your way > to support continued use.
We tend to do this already for things like PMS, which is as close as Gentoo gets to something like the kernel API. However, sometimes a gradual transition doesn't always make as much sense, and Gentoo doesn't always have the manpower to make every change a pretty one. And there is a cost to maintaining that kind of backwards compatibility. For example, debian chose to keep its LSB init scripts and write systemd unit wrappers around them. If they had chosen openrc instead I wouldn't be surprised if they kept the LSB init scripts and wrote an openrc compatibility layer around that. While this does provide a more stable experience, it also leaves around a ton of cruft. In general I tend to favor a balance. Trying to get everything just right was why the git migration literally took years, and even that in the end had a few bumps. Gentoo users need to be willing to deal with the occasionally bump in the road - we try to provide a fairly cutting edge experience, with minimal layers in integration. But, there is nothing really wrong with your suggestion, and we try to accommodate that approach when we can. > And yes, the personal attacks probably should die down. ++ -- Rich
