On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 04:45:35PM +0100, Dridi Boukelmoune wrote: > > And also, at some point in the future once this is implemented and the > > new setup has been around for a while, systemd should start emitting a > > warning during boot, to notify people that such setups will stop being > > supported at some future point. > > But your average user won't see that. For starters we have a splash > screen by default (or at least my system does) and with systemd the > boot is going too fast so I usually don't have time to see anything at > all :) > > (except during shutdown, where I actually get warnings and have time > to read them even!) Sorry for that, we're working on fixing those ;) > When I install a port on FreeBSD I sometimes get an /etc/issue-like > message from the port maintainer giving pointers regarding installed > services and whatnots... If Fedora had something like that it could be > turn into an opt-in action: "I see that your nobody user has uid 99, > run this command with root privileges to fix that" with a link to a > wiki page warning about the known pitfalls. > > However, where would you put this message? Terminal? Gnome? Spins? You are right, a warning during boot would not reach a large subgroup of users. A boot-time warning would be useful for developers and sysadmins. When the time comes, we should probably add release notes entry or something like that. Zbyszek _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
