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From: "Olivier Crête" <tester@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: news item for sys-apps/systemd -> /usr migration
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:03:32 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1325815412.2385.7.camel@TesterTop4> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1325813393.27505.15.camel@rook>

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Hi,

On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 20:29 -0500, Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote:
> Negative effects of removing the /bin/systemd symlink on 2021-05-01: an
> unknown number of users who had forgotten to update their grub.conf will
> discover that they can no longer boot their systems.
> 
> I would suggest not removing the symlink unless there is a technical
> reason why its presence is undesirable.

Doing aggressive migrations like that should really be avoided.. But we
know that the real long term solution is to have a /bin -> /usr/bin
symlink.


-- 
Olivier Crête
tester@gentoo.org
Gentoo Developer

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-06  2:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-05 23:52 [gentoo-dev] RFC: news item for sys-apps/systemd -> /usr migration Michał Górny
2012-01-05 23:59 ` Philip Webb
2012-01-06  1:29 ` Alexandre Rostovtsev
2012-01-06  2:03   ` Olivier Crête [this message]
2012-01-06  9:28     ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2012-01-06 15:31       ` Ian Stakenvicius
2012-01-06 15:46         ` Michał Górny
2012-01-06  9:25   ` [gentoo-dev] " Michał Górny
2012-01-10 19:49     ` Donnie Berkholz

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