systemd and changes

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 24.08.10 17:35, Matthew Miller (mattdm at mattdm.org) wrote:

> 
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 10:13:26PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > > That said, on the VM I tried F14 upgrading straight from F12 all seem
> > > fine so far, although the output of systemctl is something I still need
> > > to get used to (I wonder what "maintenance" means referred to the
> > > status of a service) ...
> > That means something isn't right with the service. For more details see:
> > http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd-for-admins-1.html
> > The term was stolen from Solaris SMF btw. 
> 
> How about "broken"? Shorter, more straightforward, and avoids the
> implication that the service was intentionally taken down for maintenance
> (my first reaction both here and on Solaris).

Well, I cannot make everybody happy.

Some folks complain if we make up new words, if equivalent words are
already established.

Other folks complain if we reuse existing words, because they like
others better.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.