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Re: to conffile or not to conffile



Matt Armstrong <matt@lickey.com> wrote:

> Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 02:10:02PM -0500, Warren Turkal wrote:
> >> Why not just create a symlink to a device node /dev/flipit and just
> >> link it to the right file.
> > 
> > Why/how would that help?
> > 
> 
> Then /etc/flipit.conf could just always have /dev/flipit, and the
> package's maintainer scripts would control where /dev/flipit pointed
> to.
> 
And this would integrate with devfs, how?

Scott
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