On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, Nye Walker wrote: > Safety. Many linux users customize their software, tweak their configs, > and like things that way. From what I've seen a linux "upgrade" doesn't > wipe out much, thus leaves conflicting services and configurations.
Nye, This is a people problem that has a solution. Slackware does address this by adding .new to each changed config file and advising users (in the UPGRADE doc) to move any customization to the new file before changing its name to the default. There are still residual issues, however, depending on what else has changed. Still, I think that better communication between distribution preparers and distribution users could successfully address these issues. Perhaps I'm naive and wrong about this. Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
