Linux is not about choice [was Re: Fedora too cutting edge?]

[Les Mikesell]

Nils Philippsen wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 11:54 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
>> On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 10:40 -0600, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>>> We are badly in need of system-config-udev. I spent several hours
>>> understanding udev adn building rules for my sound cards and tv cards.
>>> I hadn't done a yum update on my F7 box for weeks/months (lazyness)
>>> did one this week, and it apperently just blew away my custom udev
>>> config
>> Hell no. We are in badly need of this crap just working out of the box.
>> Throwing configuration / options at the problem will only make it worse.
>> Trying to explain this to people is apparently impossible since people
>> keep proposing stupid configuration tools with "unbreak my system"
>> options.
> 
> There's the bad idea that everything under /etc/ is configurable, but in
> reality these rules are "program data" and ideally should go into /share
> if that existed (which would avoid people thinking they're meant to
> touch that stuff, hopefully).

I'm having trouble parsing that statement.  Are you saying that people 
shouldn't be able to edit their own /etc/xxx files as documented by the 
upstream programs or that the distribution should move the parts that it 
modifies with its internal tools elsewhere?

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   Les Mikesell
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