On Sun, 2009-07-19 at 12:01 +1000, Allan McRae wrote:

First off, I don't like modifying config files. But, given I did this update and still managed to screw my system up when testing it with a reboot...

So it is a question of which I hate more; post install messages or automatically fixing the file.

A post install message means that I tell all complaining users that they should have read their pacman output. But hang on, they are already told that there is a .pacnew file for what is a very important config file. So I can say that anyway. So here is my prototype install file...

post_install() { if [ -f "/etc/inittab.pacnew" ]; then echo "You are being very stupid if you did not take notice of that warning about a .pacnew file" fi }

A simple sed of the config file means much, much less complaining users. And given the number of complaints I got about libjpeg7 (wheres the thanks now gtk and kde are working?), I am very, very tempted just to do the sed.

Allan

Not that my option means squat but.... I agree. Since this update/upgrade will break everyone/most peoples systems I think a relaxing of the rule for this one is justified . Rules are meant to be broken, that's why there are rules :) You do want to be a distro without rules don't you?