On Fri, 17.01.14 13:20, Simon McVittie (simon.mcvit...@collabora.co.uk) wrote:
> > On 17/01/14 09:42, Kay Sievers wrote: > > This year will bring huge flag day compat breaks. We will drop all old > > D-Bus support, we will require on a bleeding edge kernel, and so on. > > Flag-day compatibility breaks are a massive pain for > distributions. The Note that it is only some distributions which have a problem with distro-wide changes like this. In Fedoraland it is a lot more common to patch things through the entire distribution or rebuild all users of a library on upgrade. I certainly do understand that Debian does thigns differently here though. > The kernel's policy is "don't break userspace" - isn't the init(1) > equivalent "don't break the rest of userspace"? Well, see the "-lrt" libc transition. I am not sure we should be held to higher standards there than libc... Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
