It's the shell scripts that update software (outside the package manager) that make my blood run cold; their mv and rm and sometimes rsync commands can give you

It's the shell scripts that update software (outside the package manager) that make my blood run cold; their mv and rm and sometimes rsync commands can give you a pretty bad day when they go wrong. Oddly, where things like config scripts are concerned, I've been more annoyed by software that tries to verify the contents of the script (except where visudo is concerned of course). It can get in the way, forcing me to deal with sorting out some particular bit of syntax immediately or else abandon all changes when really I just need to put that file aside for a moment and deal with the other service that just burst into flames. I wish I could recall the specifics, but I just dealt with this exact situation recently, and I would've liked to have had a "tazer" button on my keyboard for the developer responsible for that feature. Aside: as a fellow troubleshooter, I have a huge amount of respect for rachel's content and skills. Her stuff is often a treat.