[gentoo-dev] Re: newsitem: openrc runscript transition (draft 3)

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Kent Fredric posted on Wed, 24 Aug 2016 19:32:05 +1200 as excerpted:

> 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"

If it was a bricking concern, yes, but this isn't about bricking (at 
least not within the scope of the current news item, and I'd expect 
another one before runscript is actually removed), it's about warnings 
that are for the user, harmless but irritating.

So the priority could arguably be different.  Note that I'm not actually 
saying it is (I haven't actually decided), only that unlike the possible 
bricking case, it arguably could be, because the possible bricking 
argument you used for justification doesn't apply.

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