On Tue, 16.07.13 02:27, Ding Yi Chen (dchen@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > And you want to do the system wide search and replace all the 3rd party programs, > scripts, and documents that mentioned /var/log/messages? > > Even if you do, you cannot change the exist tutorial, blog, and forums that > refer /var/log/messages. > > Image the following scenario: > Suppose a Fedora newbie (or linux newbie) encounters a problem, > most of the search results state: Check /var/log/messages > > He/She will be very frustrated if he/she cannot find it. Well, that's an excuse to *never* change anything because docs might need updating. Note that the feature includes that we add in a README file to /var/log/ which explains the situation and suggests the command lines to get the logs with journalctl. We were in a very similar spot for /etc/r.d/init.d, which is empty now, with some exceptions. There we also added a README explaining the situation. Documentation issues should be treated as documentation issues: i.e. document changes in the release notes, ship the necessary man pages and add helpful help texts to the places people would looking for the original stuff we replaced. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
