On 12/21/15 6:17 PM, Ángel González wrote:
> Chet Ramey wrote:
>> The current configurable startup file options are insufficient for
>> their purposes because they can be enabled or disabled by vendors,
>> and these folks would rather not modify the "vendor" parts of the
>> system. In some cases, with some Linux distributions, doing so voids
>> their support.
>
> How are they going to deal with vendors disabling the new configuration
> file, too?
The idea is that by making it an unconditional option that is on by
default, vendors will be discouraged from changing it. It's an
optimistic perspective, no doubt.
> "Create a new configuration file" is the wrong "solution" to "the
> vendor disables existing configuration files".
As I said, the vendor is the obstacle here. (And it's not `the vendor',
its the multitude of them that make different choices.)
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