on Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 06:12:28PM +0100, Gergely Nagy (algernon@bonehunter.rulez.org) wrote: > On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 18:05 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > > also sprach Gergely Nagy <algernon@bonehunter.rulez.org> [2004.11.19.1802 +0100]: > > > Umm.. So if I have an NFS-shared $HOME, that I share between > > > Debian, various BSDs and commercial Unixes, I'll have to resort to > > > black magic to get some of my dotfiles appear where they need to, > > > on all of the systems I'm using them? > > > > Use symlinks. > > That's butt ugly, and I'll have even more files than normally. For a transitional period, it's damned useful. > Throw in some inode quotas and boom, my $HOME is broken (and yes, I > regularly work on a system with ridiculously low inode quotas). Pardon? Could you expand on this? > There are also some - arguably broken - software out there that scream > if the dotfile is a symlink. Even if I can fix those, I can't force > the Solaris sysadmin to install that version. As another post suggested, the standard, if it's implemented, should be managed on a package-by-package basis. Which if ported back upstream means that cross-distro compatibility should be maximized. Not wholly problem-free, but headed there. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Information is not power after all: Old-fashioned power is power. If you aren't big industry or government, you have very little power. Once they've hacked the electronic voting system, you'll have no power at all. - Robert X. Cringely
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