bad practice: not reading the manpage

[Bill Nottingham]

Florin Andrei (florin at andrei.myip.org) said: 
> > Because they're different things.
> > 
> > 'off' - configure the service to not start
> > 'del' - remove all state for the service entirely
> 
> But that's a state in itself, functionally equivalent to "off on all
> runlevels". It's unique only in the way that it is not preserved by "rpm
> -U"

No, it's a state equivalent to 'no state at all'.

> This is the core of the problem and I don't think I received a good
> answer yet.

Because you don't randomly change established, documented, and
expected behavior on a whim.

> Tradition is fine and all that, but it should change when it's hampering
> the usability. Maybe I spent too much time lately with the Gnome HIG and
> stuff like that (not strictly related, I know, but you get the idea),
> but I think it's the computer semantics that should bend over backwards
> to adapt to human semantics, not the other way around.

You want to help usability? Help work on something better.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FCNewInit

Bill