Le Sat, 18 Jul 2009 23:29:28 -0500,
Aaron Griffin <aaronmgrif...@gmail.com> a écrit :

> And to be clear, I definitely do not like the pandering to users thing... if
> people whining about stupid shit gets on your nerves, stop visiting the
> forums and IRC. It worked for me! ( google 'eternal september' for kicks :).
> Pyther, I like your sentiment.

Same here. I'm just a user but I like to think that Arch is a distribution that 
gives control to power users, and that teaches other users how things work.

That teaching might require breaking the system of those that don't follow 
simple rules such as read the output of Pacman.

Moreover, I have modified /etc/inittab, and depending on what the sed does, it 
might break my system. I don't think I'm the only user to have done that. So, 
even if you go the sed way, you will need to use post_upgrade() to warn the 
users that you changed something, and probably create a .pacsave... But in 
fact, if your goal is to make the systems of people who don't know what 
/etc/inittab is work, why use sed and not just replace the file with a new one 
using tty?

Anyway, I second pyther, phrakture and all those who are against automatic 
changes to critical configuration files. And I think every post or bug report 
complaining about that should be closed with a link to the news post about the 
move from vc to tty.

-- 
catwell

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