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[Dufflebunk <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>]

My 2 cents: I agree with Nick entirely.

On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Nick Jennings wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 05:30:30PM -0500, nealbirch wrote:
> > Nick Jennings wrote:
> > >  Seems like this isn't in the scope of the init.d spell. Or am I 
> > > mistaken?
> > > 
> > >  Is the init.d spell supposed to control all base system files in /etc/ 
> > > ?
> > >  I think perhaps there should be a baseconfig spell or something which 
> > > does
> > >  this. It can track all the misc. files that reside in /etc/ and are not
> > >  currently tracked by any spell.
> > 
> > 
> > The init.d spell is becoming a catch-all for things, at the moment, by 
> > default. There are some loose cannon's in this, it appears. I have 
> > gotten reports from many people on this who have the symlinks, and it 
> > may be from a particular iso, at the moment, my thought is how to 
> > correct it.
> 
>  Hmm. I think it may be a better move to keep init.d's purpose very
>  specific to init organization, and make another spell which keeps
>  track of the very basic files needed in a sourcemage system. 
> 
> 
> > A quick and dirty way would be to check for the existance of a link 
> > rather than file in the mount.sh file, if /etc/mtab is a symlink, then 
> > remove it before the script resets the mtab so that it can be set up 
> > properly by mount. Something like the following would do it:
> 
>  Why not just inform people of this and let them decide if they want to
>  change it. I think trying to control peoples filesystem layout is
>  A Bad Thing (tm). We can say something like:
> 
>  It appears your mtab is a symlink. It really *should* be a normal file
>  for mount to behave correctly. Please perform the following commands if
>  you do not want to receive this message again:
> 
>  # ...<commands>...
> 
>  
> 
>  The more we take over peoples setup, the more we take on the bad parts
>  of debian. :)
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