Stanislav Maslovski schrieb: > Hello, > > I am writing you off-list because it seems that your reactions > are motivated not by thinking, but emotions. It seems that the
Thanks for implying that I was *not* thinking when I wrote this. (Don't take this remark too seriously) > > My aim was not to piss you off, and not to show that you were > not competent with the task you do for debian. That was done to show > the importance of the policy and the importance of making things the > debian way. > > Moreover, I think that in the case of powersaved you could easily > correct this issue. I do not really understand why you are so against > to moving the scripts under /etc. Any rational arguments? Put it the other way: Why should the user have the need to edit/configure a script that is shipped by powersaved like wm_logout, beep_hi, beep_lo (this is true for all scripts that are shipped in /usr/lib/powersave/scripts). I don't see any, besides that this a) offers a way for a user to screw up his installation b) increases the size of /etc c) makes it much harder for upgrades. conffiles are treated differently and not automatically removed e.g. Can you provide a profound reason, why you have to edit one of those files that are shipped by powersaved? As I wrote, there is some merit to your proposal when it comes to adding own additional scripts, which then could be placed under /etc, much like pm-utils does. But this is, as I wrote a feature request (powersaved providing a facility to execute custom scripts from /etc/). Question is, if custom scripts are a real necessity. Nowadays powersaved uses hal/pm-utils for the actual suspend/hibernate, so you should actually use pm-utils if you want to run custom scripts on suspend/hibernate. Could you elaborate, why and in what way you need to extend powersaved with custom configuration? Cheers, Michael P.S: Please keep the bug in CC. I think there is no reason to make this discussion private. -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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