Re: Proposed guideline for init script files

[Michael Schwendt <bugs michael gmx net>]

On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 20:56:18 +0100, Enrico Scholz wrote:

> > How is that different than any other part of the OS that uses a shell
> > script?  Are the init scripts so buggy that we need to be able to mark
> > them with %config where we don't do that with other parts of the OS?
> 
> /etc is the classical location for configuration files and I *expect*
> that I can edit things there resp. that my changes are not lost silently.

/etc contains things, such as GConf2 schema files, which you are not supposed
to edit.