Hello:

On 18 Mar 2025 at 19:57, Xenguy.fl9z@??? wrote:

> ... starting to notice this decades ago ...
As I thought.
A truly vintage fuck-up.

> ... my reaction was 'WTF?!'
Glad to see I was not alone in my reaction. 8^°

> ... brief research before I concluded ...
Hmm ...
I definitely skipped that part.

Being the cantankerous old bastard I am, I saw no need to research
anything*: in my view, my systems DNS setting was *mine* and mine
alone to fuck around with.

And that was it.
* but Ralph was right: RTFM was in order

> ... simply set permissions to immutable ...
Like I mentioned earlier, if using [connman], [c]/etc/resolv.conf[/c]
is a symlink to some file it writes to so there is no way to make it
immutable.

> The 'hammer' answer to dumb developer decisions ...
Is immediate blowback to the developer.
A bit late now.

But these days the solution may well lie within the availability of
an optional meta-package with a script to undo the nonsense.

If we then see some action on behalf of the developers designed to
thwart the script, then we'll know it's a bit more than just basic
idiocy.

> ... "hands off my DNS!"
Yes!
That's the spirit !

Best,

A.