On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> wrote: > 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.
Actually, I think I have talked myself into working on such an enhancement myself. Thanks. _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
