Florin Andrei (florin(a)andrei.myip.org) said:
Why "--del" should be different from "off"?
Why are 'rpm -i' and 'rpm -U' different?
Why are 'ln -s' and 'ln' different?
Because they're different things.
'off' - configure the service to not start
'del' - remove all state for the service entirely
Almost always, it's preferable to disable services with
"--del",
therefore keeping the list shorter and easier to read for the overworked
sysadmin. It's kind of hard to scan tons of chkconfig lists on many
systems, trying to figure out which ones are on and which are off; those
lists are not easy to read at a glance.
So, misuse of the command to make --list easier to read is worth
changing the behavior that's existed since the command was introduced?
Bill