On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 4:46 AM, Tom Wijsman <tom...@gentoo.org> wrote: > The amount of users misusing a knife or hammer is much lower than the > amount of users misusing INSTALL_MASK.
Agreed. A typical user would almost never need to use INSTALL_MASK. If they're using it, they're probably doing something wrong. If you want to not install unit files, I'd say you're probably doing something wrong, but if you want to do that anyway, INSTALL_MASK is in fact the most appropriate tool for the job. Ditto if you don't want to install init.d scripts. > > Let's not sacrifice part of our user base by taking a wrong decision; > developing a distro goes much further than "let's just use this hack", > until multiple people agree a hack to be the best short term solution. Few people NEED to INSTALL_MASK systemd units. For those who don't care about a few hundred inodes, just use the system and don't worry about this. For those who go nuts over it, use the feature. You get to keep the pieces if you use it wrong. If you don't want to break your system, just set the desktop profile, don't touch your flags, and just emerge what you want. Your system will work just fine. Rich
