On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 13:16, Thomas Bächler<thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Aaron Griffin schrieb: >> >> However, I must point out: odds are most people don't touch inittab, so >> the >> upgrade will do things as expected and the sed line will only do work a >> small subset of end users. > > You are wrong here. I would guess virtually any user touched it. That's questionable. It depends if users configured their X login manager in inittab or just added gdm/kdm/slim/whatever to DAEMONS in rc.conf (as I did). I doubt there is any statistics on it, so it's hard to correctly assume anything. Anyway these are valid points: > That said, we do modify configuration files all the time. We run grpck on a > shadow update so users can still log in, some gtk update generate files in > /etc so it still finds its plugins and more. We just don't do it ourselves, > but hide behind some program provided to us and tell ourselves "It's okay, > upstream wanted it this way". And guess what, nobody even notices. The whole discussion is getting on a way to flamewar IMO. I'm fine with just newsitem in advance and a post_upgrade message, but Thomas' idea about doing sed and saving user's config as .pacsave and posting a message about what was done is reasonable as well: * users who weren't careful will have a working system after reboot, * users who are careful will see the .pacsave and will check\ if sed didn't break their config. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)
