> From: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at sun.com> ... > Nicolas Williams wrote: > > IMO def*() should be contracted for using existing default files (and > > variables) *only*. > > > > For example, if there was a new GUI utility that needed to process > > /etc/default/su in order to be consistent with su(1) then it should use > > libcmd:def*() under contract, but a new utility that needed some way to > > store configuration above and beyond what exists now in /etc/default > > must NOT use libcmd:def*(), nor default-style configuration files, even > > if it lives in ON. > > So should it be "Obsolete Consolidation Private"?
Yep, it should be "Obsolete <whatever we agree to". Not that we'll actually be able to remove it in my lifetime. 8^) - jek3
