On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 06:49:16PM +1000, Paul Gear wrote: > Andrew Suffield wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 11:32:23AM +1000, Paul Gear wrote: > >> Given that Shorewall's most popular distribution as of our last survey > >> (http://shorewall.net/survey-200603.html) was Debian, i think it would > >> make sense to make it easy for Debian/Ubuntu users to use more recent > >> versions of Shorewall that behave like Shorewall users expect. As > >> Andrew has mentioned, i don't think we're likely to get far with getting > >> Debian to change the behaviour of the package. > > > > Changing it will just mean that the behaviour of other parts of the > > system behave unexpectedly (or maybe break entirely). Best to leave > > the init script alone, and just not use it as a user interface. > > Getting stuff like that right is probably why Debian is the most > > popular platform. > > I think most of the opinions voiced in that thread indicated that the > behaviour was very much *not* right for Shorewall users, despite the > fact that it might be "right" in the Debian sense.
How many of those users would be willing to sacrifice a well-behaved package manager in order to have an alternative to running the shorewall command directly? The opinion of a user who doesn't understand the system is not automatically valid, and is frequently misguided. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Shorewall-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-devel
