bad practice: not reading the manpage

[Bill Nottingham]

Florin Andrei (florin at 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