Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian
On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 21:57 +0800, Patrick Lauer wrote:
> Why this arbitrary limit to only one application?
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=3&chap=4
>
> Something along those lines makes life a lot easier and avoids these
> schizophrenic hacks around package managers that don't respect files -
> but it needs support in the package manager to work reliably.
Years ago I nearly had a heart attack when I saw the following output
from etc-update:
"Merging trivial changes to fstab"
Doesn't Arch have a setup where foo.conf includes foo.conf.local (or
conf.d/foo, or something; I get frustrated with Arch about 2 minutes
after booting, usually) for anything the user edits? Personally I'd
rather have a set of files that I know the distribution may blow away at
any moment and a separate set of files that I know the distribution will
never alter. I get that a change to the semantics of a configuration
file may require user-altered stuff to change, but even dispatch-conf
doesn't help with that.
Weldon
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