Uoti Urpala <uoti.urp...@pp1.inet.fi> wrote: > George Danchev wrote: [...] >> For some reason or another the vast majority of applications have >> not been following this approach. I'm not going to argue whether is >> makes sense or not.
> The reason why most old applications do not follow that approach (at > least not yet) is pretty obvious: their authors never considered it. > etc-overrides-lib semantics have only become a seriously considered > alternative fairly recently. Having settings in one (optional) file overide settings in another one is far from being a new/fresh idea though. See pine. cu andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/npi189-n4l....@argenau.downhill.at.eu.org
