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Re: Why choose Debian?



on Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 08:02:00PM +1100, CaT (cat@zip.com.au) wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 12:12:34AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> > >   5) A mission to get all configuration out of programs/scripts and
> > >   into config files in /etc.
> > 
> > ...and more-or-less *flat* in /etc.  Lots of subdirs are wonderfully
> > organized and tidy, but it makes referencing scripts a fscking pain in
> > the ass.
> 
> How so?

Well, try it sometime.

Champion example IMO is RH's /etc/sysconfig scripts, and, under inet.d,
the mysqld daemon initialization script, which calls another two scripts
in a completely separate portion of the directory tree. 

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