On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 07:32:05PM +1200, Kent Fredric wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Aug 2016 17:57:43 -0500
> William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
> > I thought about dropping the version number from the
> > display-if-installed line, but that doesn't make sense because it means
> > that everyone, including all new installs of OpenRC after this version,
> > would have to read the newsitem.
> > 
> > William
> > 
> 
> That concern is in the wrong priority.
> 
> "Your system might break" is more important than "ugh, annoying news items"
> 
> Viewing the news item once per clean install is still less of a "Problem" than 
> "everyone with an old system syncs, doesn't get any warning, upgrades openrc to
> a version which breaks this, and they brick their boot" 

This will not break anyone's boot. It just tells you a fast way to get
rid of some annoying messages. This is more an informational newsitem
than a warning because people will complain about the messages.

I do not plan to drop runscript at this point, that will happen when
openrc-1.0 is released, which will be a while yet.

William