Proposed guideline for init script files

[Jesse Keating]

The Packaging Committee has been discussing guidelines for init scripts for a 
while.  Currently there is a split between init scripts being marked 
as %config and many that aren't.  We (the PC) with input from various folks 
feel it is best to not mark init scripts as %config, and instead promote 
configuration to happen in an /etc/sysconfig/<init> file.  Mostly the reason 
being that init scripts are just that, scripts to run and not config files to 
edit.  As such I've drafted a proposal for the guidelines and the PC approved 
it.  There is time now for a wider audience to review the proposed change and 
comment.

Please take a moment to read through 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/InitScripts and provide some 
feedback.  If nobody has major objections or reasonable adjustments, this 
will become policy in a week's time.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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