Hi, On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 08:28:22AM +0200, Tobias Hunger wrote:
On Sep 15, 2014 1:56 AM, "Leonid Isaev" <lisaev@umail.iu.edu> wrote:
systemd's factory reset and atomic upgrades were explicitly stated to be useful only in special situations, like embedded systems. Just because Archlinux systemd package enables them doesn't mean that the entire distribution should be change around.
Yes, these are features for special use cases, I am not arguing that.
I would still like these features to be easy to implement on Arch, provided the required changes do not harm the traditional setups.
Implementation is easy, support in all usecases is hard. I mean, Archlinux is not CoreOS...
I do not think the changes in my bug report carry a support overhead.
My only point is that moving pacman DB around is the least difficult thing to deal with when it comes to bringing factory-reset and friends to Archlinux. I don't object to this move by itself, but the motivation seems ill-defined to me. Moreover, reshuffling things around will break lots of scripts our there that expect /var/lib/pacman/local to be populated... Cheers, -- Leonid Isaev GPG fingerprints: DA92 034D B4A8 EC51 7EA6 20DF 9291 EE8A 043C B8C4 C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D