Re: [OT] Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Arch hooks

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Suffield <address@hidden> writes:

    Andrew> In this case, your problem has changed from "I don't want
    Andrew> to use apacheconfig" to "I want to use apacheconfig, I
    Andrew> just don't want it to break".

That's always what it has been.  But second best is to fail in such a
way that the breakage doesn't propagate.   That's when you need to
understand the packaging infrastructure.

    Andrew> I think I'd file a bug if a package failed to install due
    Andrew> to apache being misconfigured, though.

I'm thinking of libapache-mod-* here.  If I deliberately defeat
apacheconfig, it's my fault if libapache-mod-python does something
wacky in the old, wrong config.

    Andrew> I don't think anybody can handle "I want to be able to do
    Andrew> Z using only what I already know".

For infrastructure, of course you can.  Lots of projects do.  And at
one point or another you've described every user-visible Debian
infrastructure tool as something between "junk" and "evil", at least
with respect to maintenance of the tool itself.  Isn't there something
wrong with that picture?

    Andrew> We *will* keep developing new tools that let us do stuff better.

Even if they're really worse.  :-)

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