On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 11:21:51PM -0400, Avery Pennarun wrote: > I hope we don't overcomplicate things like pcmcia does. With "schemes," > configuration files that are really big shell scripts, and other weird > stuff, it makes me dizzy just finding the line that sets my pcmcia > ethernet's IP address. FWIW, something like schemes probably will happen -- being able to move laptops around pleasantly is important; and being able to move desktops around is that bad a deal either. On the other hand, yes, PCMCIA's scripts are kinda confusing, as are RedHat's. Configuration files generally shouldn't be Turing complete, IMHO. > I'm not against a more complex config scheme, but just keep _static_ > configuration in one place (/etc/init.d/network) and _dynamic_ configuration > elsewhere. Most systems have little or no dynamic configuration, so we > should keep those systems as simple as possible. This is going to change over the next few years, btw. First of all, simply because notebooks and subnotebooks are becoming a lot more popular, and they'll tend to get moved around between home and work and wherever; and second because IPv6 is starting to get deployed, and it requires dynamic configuration. That said, I don't think there's any huge rush to change things. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. PGP encrypted mail preferred. ``Like the ski resort of girls looking for husbands and husbands looking for girls, the situation is not as symmetrical as it might seem.''
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