On Tuesday 20 February 2007 08:33, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > I don't see this - Separate config files only restrict the user to what > a vendor wants him to restrict to and what the vendor has taken into > consideration. > > It takes away the freedom of customization and takes away the freedom > extending init-scripts to what the vendor has not considered. > > Why would this be useful? The user has chosen to customize, so it's the > user's responsibility to handle this situation - If you take away > %config you are simply erasing, killing his "carefully handcrafted > solution" to a real world problem. - I can't find this helpful. And I can't see any difference between this an any other script on the file system. So unless we extend it so that all editable scripts become %config, I don't see this special casing being helpful, instead its promoting upstreams to continue to use init scripts for configuration. -- Jesse Keating Release Engineer: Fedora
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