[arch-dev-public] Controversial initscripts change, egads

Roman Kyrylych roman.kyrylych at gmail.com
Tue Jul 1 03:07:58 EDT 2008


2008/7/1 Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org>:
> Aaron Griffin wrote:
>>
>> I pushed this because people gripe about these things and it irritates me.
>>
>>
>> http://projects.archlinux.org/?p=initscripts.git;a=commitdiff;h=84f76aafc5f6d7f3d2c2141d2930e42dcb82def0
>>
>> Additionally, it seems silly to change this every time we push out an
>> ISO. Does anyone have an issue with this patch?
>>
>
> +1.
>

+1.
BTW, East-European users used to joke that the major difference between Arch
and other distros is that the appearance of a new release is noticed
only by the change of /etc/issue after one of reboots. :-)

> I had changed my release name to say "Not a bomb" so when I went through
> airports and was asked to boot my laptop, on a subconscious level security
> would know everything was fine.  Thinking about it, I am surprised it never
> backfired...

Haha :-D


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Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)


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