On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 07:53:07PM -0700, Florin Andrei wrote:
Why "--del" should be different from "off"? In
either case, the package
should not change the state of the service, period. It's not like
something goes off every once in a blue moon and changes things around -
if there's a change, most likely someone made a decision and did it for
a reason. The software should respect that decision.
Because "del" removes the state information completely. Then, when the
package is updated, it has no idea if it was supposed to be on or off, and
has to go with the default. And the default for some of these things
(syslog, say) *should* be "on".
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.
chkconfig --list|grep [35]:on
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