From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DC821138359 for ; Tue, 20 Oct 2020 21:26:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0BD8EE0AFD; Tue, 20 Oct 2020 21:26:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.aisha.cc (mail.aisha.cc [108.61.81.40]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C1763E0AF6 for ; Tue, 20 Oct 2020 21:26:54 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=aisha.cc; s=excisionRSA; t=1603229213; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=WPD2DsjUYp+SgKXz/0jueZ9+8PzHhmo/9JpGg1po7Ms=; b=TQOCcKltM16f3YjB1pycz8S05v0OWVWJbr9O40SYs7qLHF2/croWK32H9yrik8vLtDvqmx zSLiVbetwCdVnEZodOAp+Q+Jb6XhbRpvOX8zR5FImA3u/SuBLOjoNe05bfee7W3LOwsUzT tOJyisrTCRdaDXK3KfWJpLeZGoerRAMZCAaZyRDN6WjGOQ3yANlWryQ6rXZrqDY64K3slh tT6CHfKHK5Mlmj/VDSbbtRZJlAbgyYeEFe8kgsyBA4Ui86Fy5LAthUhKSVVd53jfBADFBb tUZJWsKxLaQ+MWwLg7EMbaAtv8xL3sVpR4ue/PiMsfVLoY7voyj6jHctKCdfzA== Received: from [192.168.1.129] (c-73-215-141-174.hsd1.nj.comcast.net [73.215.141.174]) by mail.aisha.cc (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id eb9fc523 (TLSv1.3:AEAD-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256:NO) auth=yes user=aisha@aisha.cc for ; Tue, 20 Oct 2020 17:26:50 -0400 (EDT) To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <07c7f85d-fe36-5885-6815-e9645d79725c@aisha.cc> <11610d1b-28ac-5ed4-94c1-f18e6fc80033@aisha.cc> <5207373.rdbgypaU67@tuxbrain> From: Aisha Tammy Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Refactor display manager openrc init scripts to independent package Message-ID: Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2020 17:26:48 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.3.2 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 X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: b0e75d44-f977-4016-8538-b8a53a1cfde8 X-Archives-Hash: 94e24701d2f59a172b5055a0665414e1 On 10/18/20 8:57 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sun, Oct 18, 2020 at 4:17 AM Andreas Sturmlechner wrote: >> >> I'm sure there is a way for the display-manager ebuild to migrate from old xdm >> configs on users' systems. How much do config and init scripts differ at all? >> > > Couldn't you just use a symlink so that either script name works? > Then the news item can be about deprecating the old name. There need > not be any rush to stop supporting it. > It is a possibility but I am opposed to this idea. If more people want this, then I can implement it, its not hard, but it is just delaying the inevitable. I do not see a long term use of this. Aisha