On Tue, 2014-03-11 at 04:27 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > > The idea is to allow config file divergence via the alternatives system as > > that already provides us with a commandline tool and some structure to > > build on. We'd still have to write a few pieces to complete the picture > > but it seemed to be a better starting point than using rpm Conflicts > > between config-packages. > > Alternatives is a horrible solution to this problem. (In fact, alternatives > is a horrible solution to ANY problem it is used on.) > > What's wrong with just dropping the defaults in /etc in the Product's live > kickstart? (Yes, that assumes the Product is delivered as a live image. We > really need to do away with those non-live installers. They only cause > problems and have no practical benefits.) AIUI the installer team's opinion is more or less the precise opposite: the live installation case is problematic and if we're getting rid of anything, we should get rid of that. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
