On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Kirill Elagin <kirela...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 3:24 AM, Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 5:50 PM, Lennart Poettering >> <lenn...@poettering.net> wrote: >> > On Tue, 10.06.14 13:58, Mike Gilbert (flop...@gentoo.org) wrote: >> > >> >> > Symlinks should probably just be considered different type of file, >> >> > that >> >> > have a contents and stuff. The contents is usually a file name, and >> >> > there's a size limit, but other than that it's just a magic kind of >> >> > file, where the symlink destination is the conents. That's how git >> >> > handles this, for example. >> >> > >> >> > I have the suspicion that this is really something to fix in your >> >> > package manager. It should learn to handle symlink upgrades the same >> >> > way >> >> > as configuration file upgrades.... >> >> >> >> The problem with installing these symlinks as part of a package is >> >> that the user may have removed them from /etc/systemd using systemctl >> >> disable. The next time they install systemd, the package puts the >> >> symlinks right back. >> > >> > Again, that's exactly what happens for configuration files too if you >> > use automake: on "make install" they are replaced by the original, >> > upstream versions. Why is recreating the symlinks bad, if overriding the >> > config files isn't? >> > >> >> People don't generally remove config files; they just make changes. >> >> On the other hand, removing the symlinks would be a very typical >> action due to the way systemctl disable works. There is some ambiguity >> as to what a missing symlink means: did the sysadmin remove it, or did >> it never exist in the first place? > > > But there is `equery f`, so it shouldn't be too hard to figure this out, > right? >
It is one thing to query the package database with a tool designed for users. It is quite another to modify our package manager to use the information in an intelligent way. Patches are welcome, as always. _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
