Re: Services that shouldn't be started in the first place: Was F29... hide.. grub

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On Thu, 2018-06-21 at 10:18 -0700, Gerald B. Cox wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 10:07 AM, Adam Williamson <
> adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2018-06-21 at 09:46 -0700, Gerald B. Cox wrote:
> > > Interesting... thanks Adam... but the way I read that is specifically
> > > tailored to "release criteria", not
> > > design/implementation guidelines - i.e. to me this says, don't hold up a
> > > release because someone
> > > screwed up and didn't conditionalize the process correctly.
> > 
> > I think you're being a *bit* harsh, here, btw, constantly talking about
> > how people are "screwing up". Conditionalized services are kind of an
> > advanced systemd feature and many people probably don't know about them
> > at all, and as we're discussing here, we *don't* actually have any
> > requirement that services be conditionalized in this way. I don't think
> > it's really fair to see this as packagers doing something horribly
> > wrong and bad. (Also note that it's not at all straightforward to
> > conditionalize some of these things in a reliable way - it seems
> > Lennart had to add a new feature to systemd to aid in conditionalizing
> > the secure boot-related service, and I don't think it'll be
> > particularly straightforward to find a correct conditionalization for
> > the rngd case either). It's just a situation we've identified where we
> > could possibly improve things.
> > 
> > First of all, I'm not "constantly talking" about how people are "screwing
> 
> up".  I made that comment in one email.
> Second, if you're going to maintain something, maintain it.  If you don't
> do something properly, or optimally... own it
> and don't make excuses.  Learn to accept constructive criticism instead of
> parsing someone's statements
> searching for reasons to feign insult for use as a deflective excuse.

I don't maintain any of these services, so your criticism is neither
constructive nor accurate.
-- 
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
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