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Re: systemd-fsck?



]] Thorsten Glaser 

> Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> 
> >> Changes to the default init system should not affect existing setups.
> >
> >Were that true, it would be different to how we handle changes in other
> >defaults.
> 
> A default is a default because it is only applies when the
> sysadmin defaults to it, when the sysadmin defaults making
> a decision themselves.

I'm not able to parse that sentence.

> Debian has no distinction between "retain the default because
> it is a default" and "keep $foo (which happened to be the default
> at some point in time) as conscious decision", which proves that
> changes in defaults shall not be applied on upgrades by default
> (hah!).

This is not how defaults in conffiles and other configurations files are
handled, so I dispute that.

In addition, apt (and I assume dselect and cupt) ask you if you want to
accept the proposed solution.  If you don't, well then choose another?

-- 
Tollef Fog Heen
UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are


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