On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 07:26:05PM +0100, Marc Schiffbauer wrote: > For example, to make that FHS definition be reality there are (can > be) runlevels that will only boot a system with all basic stuff > required to mount the rootfs and make root being able to login to > the local text console. These are the things that make a unixoid > system valuable over other kind of systems.
There are benefits to the proposed changes, especially for rpm based distros and especially for non-server settings. Are they good enough? No, I don't think they are. But since forking all those packages is not a realistic proposition, we will have to follow along. We should try and not break existing installations when we do though. > I do not like the idea to throw away all those benefits just because > so many (younger/newer) people do not know about the possibilities > an "old fashioned" unix system tends to have. Hey, this is web 2.0 era. Being mostly right most of the time is good enough. -- Eray Aslan <e...@gentoo.org>
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