Re: /etc/alternatives -- Why?
On Mar 4, Scott Stanley wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Mar 1997, Dominik Kubla wrote:
> It seems like anyone who is running their system with /usr as a CD-ROM is
> probably not looking for options or configurability. They just want a
> basic system to play with and try before stepping all the way into an
> installation. It would seem like the creater of the CD should just place
> a ``basic'' system on the CD without alot of different flavors of
> commands.
But you are leaving out one very important situation: NFS. There are a good
number of people that have /usr mounted over NFS in read-only mode. Most
people don't have /etc mounted over NFS. This allows each individual
machine to be configured as the admin likes it, without messing up
configurations on other machines. Nifty, eh?
> The /etc/alternatives seems like it just adds one more file to the
> configuration which might increase the confusion of someone trying to
> learn the system.
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