Gerhard Hoogterp schrieb:
On Sunday 09 July 2006 17:29, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> As I wrote in an other mail: Stop interfering with the actual configfile
> and add the changes to a config.conf.dist file.
Yep, you wrote that, and I answered that *I* would *NOT* like this.
I like it, that I can use a program right away - at least in a
"default" way. If you had your way, *NO* program which relied
on configuration files would be usable after installation, as
no configuration file could be found. Because of that, I would
not want to happen what you proposed.
Sure, and it's such a big deal to copy the dist to a non dist on first emerge
and update the dist version afterwards.
Sure, it's no big deal to make the distribution harder to use. You're
right. But you might have a hard time convincing e.g. the gentopia people
to do what you propose.
My whole point is that etc-update and friends should stay out of my manually
adjusted config files once I've touched them
Then you've got no point, since etc-update and friends *do* stay out of your
files; etc-update even stays out of the configuration files, if *you*
haven't modfied them.
As for software running on pure and unchecked default configs.. That's,
especially for more low level software,
Actually, it's not. Not necessarily, at least.
not the smartest thing to rely on.
Yes, I also think, that you're quite a stupid person. You know, I dislike
being called "not smart". And I actually find this somewhat of an offense.
Alexander Skwar
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We don't need no education, we don't need no thought control.
-- Pink Floyd
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