[HEADS-UP] systemd for F14 - the next steps

[Jeff Raber]

On 07/21/2010 09:36 PM, Dave Airlie wrote:
>> Well, I am not a native speaker. We were looking for a verb that
>> >  basically means "make this take effect immediately".
>> >
>> >  i.e. the "enable"/"disable" commands makes some changes for the next
>> >  time they are looked at, and then adding --realize on top makes those
>> >  changes take effect immediately, i.e. so that the unit is start/stopped
>> >  according to those changes. We actually used "--start=" first (which
>> >  however is very confusing when you'd write "disable --start" to disable
>> >  something and then have it stop...) We then considered "--now", because
>> >  it is not a verb. But eventually we stuck with --realize. It's not
>> >  great, yes. But we couldnt think of anything better. Happy to take
>> >  suggestions. But no, --take-effect-immediately is not really an option.
> Why have two verbs in a command structure? isn't enable or disable the
> order, --now seems like it would be correct, the thing with English is
> its flexible about these sort of things.

I'm part of the native English group. For me, --now would be an almost 
self explanatory option, and so easy to remember!

If --now is unacceptable, how about --immed.

-Jeff