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Re: Upcoming Debian Releases



On Sat, 24 May 1997, Mark Baker wrote:

> > b) change policy to _not_ allow config information in /etc scripts
> 
> I disagree strongly. A script without config information doesn't belong in
> /etc at all.
> 
> Having your database seems like a reasonable idea, but it needs to be plain
> text which might be slow; a db file would be faster but I want to be able to
> change it in a text editor.

As a compromise it could use the same system than the sendmail aliases:
The user make changes in a plain text file (/etc/aliases), but the 
application 'compiles' this file as a db database (/etc/aliases.db)?

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