on /etc/sysconfig

[Kay Sievers]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 23:20, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jul 2011, Lennart Poettering wrote:

>> Hmm? Which ones in fedora can't? Are you suggesting we are shipping
>> software that cannot be modified? If so, please explain which one that
>> is, since we need to remove it from the distro then. Fedora only
>> includess Free Software, and software that cannot be modified would not
>> qualify as that.
>>
>
> I'd suggest we're shipping software that doesn't need to be modified,
> doesn't need to be "fixed".  Saying those daemons need to be fixed is like
> saying a pregnant woman need to go to the hospital to be cured.
> Pregnancy and /etc/sysconfig are perfectly natural and healthy.  Pregnant
> women and /etc/sysconfig both have perfectly valid use cases and do not
> need to be "fixed" :)

Most pregnancies last ~40 weeks. If that takes much longer it needs to be fixed.

Kay