Miloslav Trmač (mitr@xxxxxxxx) said: > On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 10:45 PM, Till Maas <opensource@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> 2) Don't package a legacy action for new scripts or actions that were not > >> supported by the prior init script; this is intended for compatibility with > >> existing scripts and/or administrator brains. > > > > It would be nice to have a good plan about how to implement the > > preferred new way to accomplish such tasks to avoid that every package > > does this differently. > > The preferred new way is that upstream implements the action in a way > that is same across all distributions. Which, in some sense, does not > answer your question. To pick a couple of examples: *tables implement operations such as 'panic' or 'save'. postfix implements 'flush'. These are not the sorts of commands that can be easily genericized across multiple packages. Bill -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
