On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:06:34 +1000
Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >
> > It is needed:
> >
> > if [ $1 -eq 1 ] ; then
> > # For new installations, hook unit file into the
> > appropriate places via symlinks /usr/bin/systemd-install enable
> > --realize=reload %{unit name}.service > /dev/null 2>&1 || : else
> > # For old installations, just reload the configuration,
> > don't change symlinks /bin/bin/systemd-install realize
> > --realize=reload %{unit name}.service > /dev/null 2>&1 || :
> > fi
>
> Wow thats pretty special... both an option called realize and a
> argument, that won't get confusing no matter how long it lives, also
> realize doesn't seem to be conveying a useful meaning, I'm a native
> speaker and I'm not sure what you actually mean by realize in this
> context.
>
> I'm going with:
>
> to make real; give reality to (a hope, fear, plan, etc.).
>
> but its seems quite an abstract term to associate reality with an
> abstract computer object.
Dave, I am not a native speaker, but I have the exact (or may be even
worse) problem. For as much as I try the syntax there is so obscure I
cannot "realize" what it means *at all*, just by looking at it.
Lennart, "realize" really is a bad bad bad choice, please consider
changing it while there is still time.
Simo.
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Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York
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