Proposed guideline for init script files

Michael Schwendt bugs.michael at gmx.net
Wed Feb 28 15:07:05 UTC 2007


On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:38:39 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:

> > +1.  In general if you have to edit an init startup file, it's a bug.
> 
> Exactly ... and what can users do about it? Edit them.
> 
> With them not being marked %config users can only hope that RH/upstream
> fixes it before the next update blows away their edits :(

A moot point.

The same applies to all the programs, which are implemented in an
interpreted language like Python. Do you want to mark all *.py files
%config just because they may contain bugs?




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