From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BCDC1381F3 for ; Thu, 30 May 2013 00:08:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 62C98E09BE; Thu, 30 May 2013 00:08:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from georges.telenet-ops.be (georges.telenet-ops.be [195.130.137.68]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DEB7E0956 for ; Thu, 30 May 2013 00:08:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from TOMWIJ-GENTOO ([94.226.55.127]) by georges.telenet-ops.be with bizsmtp id i08q1l00F2khLEN0608q6C; Thu, 30 May 2013 02:08:51 +0200 Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 02:06:42 +0200 From: Tom Wijsman To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Switchup-mode and boottime selector? Was: eselect init Message-ID: <20130530020642.59449daf@TOMWIJ-GENTOO> In-Reply-To: <20130529205523.GA6281@linux1> References: <51A1F493.90101@gentoo.org> <51A22310.70202@gentoo.org> <20130527224021.GA18963@waltdnes.org> <20130528135619.44259b60@TOMWIJ-GENTOO> <20130529105249.433e57f0@TOMWIJ-GENTOO> <20130529181554.GB23135@waltdnes.org> <20130529215600.0e53c63f@TOMWIJ-GENTOO> <20130529205523.GA6281@linux1> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.0 (GTK+ 2.24.18; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/mo8iuQ2L=bunCba8JIU918T"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: f6956027-d9fd-4b77-941f-ad6e76bc0931 X-Archives-Hash: 248d289370fb1d252e60b2e0d47e5db6 --Sig_/mo8iuQ2L=bunCba8JIU918T Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 29 May 2013 15:55:23 -0500 William Hubbs wrote: > > We want to make this easier towards the user, therefore doing heavy > > discussion to exhaust all the alternatives and maybe someone's > > interested in implementing one of them that appears most feasible. >=20 > Since users can already do this, why are we bothering with > re-inventing the wheel? How does running an eselect init command make > it easier for the user than telling them to edit their boot loader > config file? > > Gentoo users are expected to build their kernel and write their boot > loader config file initially, so why are we trying to dumb this down? For the same reason we have all the other eselect modules. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/eselect/ Ironically, that project description even mentions init system... :) --=20 With kind regards, Tom Wijsman (TomWij) Gentoo Developer E-mail address : TomWij@gentoo.org GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2 ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D --Sig_/mo8iuQ2L=bunCba8JIU918T Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.20 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJRppgWAAoJEJWyH81tNOV9kzkH/36qFkU7jUUNyVtnzW9RunX5 qCJmo94ThUun4ShQTM0APRb2IiTZSEBHrW5L6U/lw0VnHxev8CwTixU5xlXcmKiM zP3ftdD7IvTdH9u/kjLKAYZBKRkhH7t6BqGeWzXSIp0oMXUNDaekTIJgmjFKFw9p uQM5iEOzmDYZs0JZsXqosoAF+Cx7k3YB4SNeYCNZC2mN643o5wKv0b3zgtta6fCU wbywqq1ChlqmLUXPOWfkDKTiAaTztdwl1HRMR76Z3z8o+TisMQOfZHGrzEi11RZy ncBljJgweadXVZRqhylNL84iagksArnLjm7n2BRPhk+/Fv7Z7fXzHG6i8x+C1x4= =mwC7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/mo8iuQ2L=bunCba8JIU918T--