Solve the init script issue

[Moritz Heiber]

As many of you have noticed, the lunar-init introduction isn't very
easy going .. especially on users that do not follow our website or
mailinglist announcements. I've been going through the steps with Auke
before I commited the update and he explicitly required it to not bring
along any sort of migration hooks or tweaks. And I partly agreed with
him on that issue. Migration code is just wrong, ugly and most of the
time its unnecessary.

Yet, in this case I see my opinion altered since the reports of several
users that weren't able to catch up with either of the mailinglists or
our website and thus ended up with systems rendered completely unusable
are quite clear.

Yesterday night I proposed to add 'lin -c lunar-init' in the respected
POST_INSTALL scripts to both modules that remove their init scripts,
e2fsprogs and net-tools, during the latest update. I haven't gotten a
word back and frankly I consider this a very important issue.

I know that our focus is supposed to stay on the server area with our
users checking in regularly in order to catch "our word". But that just
ain't the case.

We have a lot of semi-professional desktop users. They know what
they're doing and they're enjoying the stability and speed of our work.
Yet, they hardly ever read our mailinglists or our website (which I
really wouldn't require to be running Lunar Linux anyway). Besides,
with the recent addition of XOrg and Xfce4 to the latest ISOs I think
we're moving away from the whole server purpose and focus (it leaves me
puzzled and thus frustrated actually why we still maintain a kind of
BOFH attiude t'wards the average Joe user).

So, the changes would just be the bare minimum to keep an updated
system running .. while it is also most effective. It has become common
practise .. I'm seeing a lot of modules being recompiled in
POST_INSTALLs and I wanted to carry out this important issue to all of
you .. since that is what we are .. a team.

Please express your opinion.

Regards,

Moritz

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