On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 15:18:31 -0400, Dan Williams <dcbw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Not that I'm advocating it (I'm don't care one way or the other), but Let's say someone was to advocate its usage, is it really all that useful to advocate it at the distribution level? Reading the webpage there is lots and lots of talk about sysadmins having problems adapting across distributions or across configurations of different projects. Having the change in Fedora instead of upstream doesn't seem to make a lot of sense as a solution to the problems being addressed. Looking at all the examples on the webpage, id saying making those changes at the distribution level is dangerous and adds tons of maintainership burden. This needs to be advocated upstream if this is going to be useful. At most, the this api can be contrasted with the current sysconfig approach for the distribution specific initscript stuff, but there is no way this is an appropriate approach for general usage (even if its technically better) unless upstream maintainers for projects agree to use it. Like the webpage says, the trick isnt so much the technology but that people have to agree to use this. If upstream projects don't agree to use it, then then implementing it at the distribution level is going to just add that much more confusion. -jef"the phrase 'cat herding' comes to mind when i think about trying to get people to agree to use any configuration api"spaleta
