-=| Luca Niccoli, Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:21:32AM +0200 |=- > On 13 May 2010 06:38, Damyan Ivanov <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The only problem is that I won't get notified when the "main" script > > is changed, which I would, if it is in /etc > > Well, as long as your own modified script works, I don't see why you > should backport changes.
To get possible new useful functionality. > When it stops working, there is your notification :) No, thanks. > > Putting things in /usr just makes it inconvenient to change, not > > impossible. I'd expect people fiddling with /etc (or /usr) to be able > > to keep the changes sane. > > It's not that they can't change things; the point is that it's their > responsibility, they deal with the consequences. This is also true for stuff under /etc. > With conffiles, it works the other way around; the maintainer MUST > preserve changes and provide migration paths. dpkg provides the migration. > This is something of utter importance, since it keeps maintaining and > upgrading a debian box from becoming an horrible nightmare; but > applying it to scripts is an abuse IMO. It works well, in my experience. > > It doesn't help. You get the shouting now too, don't you? :) > > Not really, since the user just needs to point the event rule back to > his own script. > Back then, scripts were gone, and local modifications joined the > bleeding choir invisible with them... I meant that I am already shouting at you because you want to make it inconvenient to experiment witht the scripts. :) > > Of course, one could argue that all the user notification stuff > > doesn't belong in eeepc-acpi-scripts in the first place and escape > > this particular can of worms. > > Well, to be more precise the whole wireless toggling stuff doesn't > belong to eeepc-acpi-scripts, so the can of worms is twice removed.... There is no wireless toggling in e-a-s. Only notification. There was wireless un/plugging in the early days, but it is no longer necessary, including the current squeeze kernel.
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