Re: Proposed guideline for init script files

[Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 freenet de>]

On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 16:07 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:38:39 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> 
> > > +1.  In general if you have to edit an init startup file, it's a bug.
> > 
> > Exactly ... and what can users do about it? Edit them.
> > 
> > With them not being marked %config users can only hope that RH/upstream
> > fixes it before the next update blows away their edits :(
> 
> A moot point.
You mean, a point Fedora wishes to ignore. I'll personally remind you
when it happens the next time.

> The same applies to all the programs, which are implemented in an
> interpreted language like Python. Do you want to mark all *.py files
> %config just because they may contain bugs?

Well, the more I think about it, the more I am inclined to like the idea
to consider rpm's default behavior to override any modified file as a
bug.

Ralf