----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jiri Belka" <[email protected]>
> To: "Alex Lourie" <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
> Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2013 2:52:31 PM
> Subject: Re: [Users] Features requests for the setup/configuration utilities 
> - feedback requested
> 
> On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:12:25 +0002
> Alex Lourie <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Hi All
> > 
> > As we are working on the configuration utilities (engine-setup,
> > engine-upgrade and engine-cleanup), we would like to get as much
> > community involvement as possible. As such, we'd like to hear the
> > wishes of the community in regards with those tools.
> 
> 1. do not think yum is everywhere, make package upgrade extensible
>    by some subclasses (apt-get, pkg_add...)

Right.

> 2. usernames are not same everywhere
>    postgres is not everywhere

Right.

> 3. do not make absolute symlinks, some packaging tools scream

I replied to this one, I don't fully agree, relative symlinks have their own 
issues, and hard to convert absolute to relative when 3rd party components are 
involved.

> 4. do not use #!/bin/bash but #!/bin/sh, in 99,9% people are not
> using
>    anything special from bash anyway

This is out of scope, we will depend on bash for now... too much legacy.
We can attend to that in future.
I can promise that no new code will be written in bash.

Thanks!

> 
> jbelka
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