systemd system unit files and UsrMove

Nathaniel McCallum nathaniel at natemccallum.com
Fri Feb 17 17:20:01 UTC 2012


On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net>wrote:

>
>
> Am 17.02.2012 18:09, schrieb Nathaniel McCallum:
> >
> >
> > 2012/2/17 "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" <johannbg at gmail.com <mailto:
> johannbg at gmail.com>>
> >
> >     On 02/17/2012 04:48 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> >
> >         Yeah -- so I see three options -- move systemd unit files to
> /usr/share,
> >         revert /usr/move, change rpmlint (or a fourth -- ignore this
> warning for f17
> >         and move systemd unit files to /usr/share for f18).
> >
> >         Which are you advocating?
> >
> >
> >     If you are going to move units to /usr/share I suspect you want to
> move the rest as well  udev, modprobe,
> >     depmod, tmpfiles, modules-load etc...
> >
> >
> >  Sure, as time permits and when such can be done without harming user
> experience.
>
> FOR WHAT REASON?
>
> such changes do ALWAYS harming user experience
>
> why?
> becaus eoperating systems are (or where it seems) made to give users
> the base for their own work, scripts, automatisms and the idea of
> linux once was give users a CUSTOMIZEABLE system
>
> by permanently change thins for the sake of the change you
> are killing the "customizeable" becasue it is better not
> do this at all to be safe for useless changes made from bored
> people upstream your OS
>
> PLEASE STOP THIS BAD ATTITUDE DAMAGE PERMANENTLY CUSTOMIZED
> SYSTEMS JUST FOR FUN OR YOU WILL NEVER IN THIS LIFE HAVE
> USERS USING LINUX IF THEY WANT TO DO MORE THAN INSERT A DVD
> AND EAT WHAT SOMEONE OTHER DECIDED IS GOOD FOR THEM
>

So we should never change anything, right? Tone down the rhetoric please.
I'm asking for gradual evolution here without pain.
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