Re: [RFC] Standard Sytem Config Filesystem (has /proc and devfs implications)

From: Ion Badulescu (ionut@moisil.cs.columbia.edu)
Date: Wed May 10 2000 - 02:59:35 EST


In article <cs.lists.linux-kernel/20000509184000.A31783@off.org> you wrote:

> Something that seems to have made its way in to several distributions
> is the concept of moving package related items to subdirectories, e.g.
> /etc/X11, /etc/httpd/, /etc/ppp/, etc. This is kind of nice in that it makes it
> a. easy to find package configs and b. cleans up /etc. It would be nice
> to standardize on that.

Oh, I'd really love this, it would make package selection for remote
distribution so much easier. Especially with rdist-based schemes. While I
guess I could teach rdist to use the file listings generated by various
package managers, the directory-based scheme is much simpler conceptually.

Ion

-- 
  It is better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool,
            than to open it and remove all doubt.

- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Mon May 15 2000 - 21:00:15 EST