bad practice: not reading the manpage

[Matthew Miller]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 10:14:25AM -0700, Florin Andrei wrote:
> After all (I apologize for repeating it over and over again, but I think
> it's a crucial point), whatever the situation before the upgrade, it was
> very likely the result of a decision made and an action carried by the
> human operator. The software should not treat it lightly.

I disagree. This is *exactly* the same case as if the user has done

  rm -f /bin/ls

When you upgrade coreutils, it'll fix this by putting /bin/ls back.

(Note the correspondence between rm and del -- pretty much the same thing.)

It's more consistent for packages to keep doing what they're doing, and for
sysadmins to properly use 'chkconfig off'. You're solving the wrong problem.

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