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> and if no one steps up to maintain it, it will be removed. "You don't break userspace". How many decades until people who no longer have source for the broke
by ori_b 7y ago
> and if no one steps up to maintain it, it will be removed.
"You don't break userspace". How many decades until people who no longer have source for the broken binaries that they run will stop complaining?
How long until sysadmins know to turn the knobs on?
How many knobs are sustainable? How much will they interact, and in how many ways will those interactions expose vulnerabilities?
The Linux way to introduce this is hell for everyone involved.
- pas 7y agoIf no one uses it, removing it does not break userspace. Removal of features happen regularly. How many? Dunno, doesn't matter. If there are users they are usually willing to step up to maintain it, and that makes having parallel APIs not a problem (the old one becomes a wrapper). Furthermore UNIX/BSD faces the same problem with every other program that lives out of tree. (Which is the majority of them anyway.) Knobology is always an endless debate, yet also regularly done without much fuss, usually simply by what the maintainer(s) decide to provide.