On 5/07/2025 10:34 am, Richard L. Hamilton wrote:
As long as there's a command line alternative to a GUI, there's nothing to
complain about - unless you have actually found a bug in the applicable command
line tool (that you don't like to have to use it IS NOT A BUG).
As long as the actual config file(s) exist and are human readable text,
rather than being jammed into some cack-arse binary format, so you can
actually look at them when debugging problems. Maybe having them
somewhere "expected".
Break a binary file, for any reason, and you're dead in the water.
Break a text file, you can fix the damn thing.
I wonder if putting them all in a well known location, like .. oh .. I
know, /etc .. so tools like grep can help .. would be sensible?
Nah, let's bury them somewhere! Then wrap them in layers of symlinks,
links, RTFSC dependencies, every damn flavour of UNIX with its own
secret place to hide configs ..
Anyway, I lost this battle decades ago, we're stuck with more and more
once-were-good O/S's adopting NT/Windows/(VMS) stupid, along with the
drones cheering for it.
No criticism of OI intended, it's just SunOS 5 and that inherited the
SVr4 garbage in the 1990's. It's just a shame that it went this way.
At least we're not stuck with SCOadmin.
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