[arch-general] What can be deleted, when not using systemd - was: polkit package upgrade patch

Tom Gundersen teg at jklm.no
Sun Aug 12 18:12:56 EDT 2012


On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 12:06 AM, Fons Adriaensen <fons at linuxaudio.org> wrote:
>> Sad to see rc.conf more or less being deprecated too.
>
> Yes, it was very convenient to have almost all essential
> configuration available in a single file. And it's sad
> that this is being abandoned not because that brings any
> benefit to the user but because 'upstream has decided'.

I do not agree with this. The change does give more features, makes
things more reliable in the long run and reduces the maintenance
burden. If we did not agree with "upstream", we would not have to do
this.

-t


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