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http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13400


acedit AT armory.com changed:

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           Severity|critical                    |normal




------- Additional Comments From acedit AT armory.com  2007-02-25 13:28 -------
(In reply to comment #1)
> Can we agree and take action on this, please?
> I just had a visit from this LDAP expert I'd like to join us sometime. He 
> was
very ANGRY.
> He wants to manage his config files by placing a symlink at /etc/ldap.conf  
> .
> Sorcery will _always_ delete that symlink on dispel of a spell that 
> installed
it as config file!!
> 
> Please consider integrating this into stable sorcery soon.
> I want to convince this guy that smgl is good. That it takes chores off him
but keeps him in control.
> When we keep undermining his admin decisions he may be off to no distro at 
> all
again...
> 

>From your description, he didnt lose any data, he lost a symlink. I would
consider this a severe bug if he lost actual data. Instead theres a small
inconvenience around restoring a symlink. I think his anger, and your 
impatience
(both here and on multiple occasions in irc) are largely out of perspective.
Now, that doesnt mean this shouldn't be fixed, but its far from the end of the
world based on your description. There are any number of workarounds to this 
and
no data was lost. I contend that a severe problem involves loss of data with 
no
workaround, that is *not* the case here.

Im not sure I like your patch. It treats *all* symlinks to files as files,
whether or not they're config files or not. Im not sure thats the best thing 
to
be doing. We dont have a good set of semantics for symlinks. Historically 
hasty
modifications about symlink handling have been troublesome. Your patch seems 
to
suggest that dispel be symlink agnostic. Im unconvinced thats the best thing 
to
do, but havent spent a lot of time thinking about what problems that may 
cause.

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