Re: Debian vs. Red Hat
Once apon a time we were talking about things that were not 10 times more
painful than using reg-edit
I thought that was the line in the sand and we had agreed to not go below
that...
OK then, the least OS in the world, MSDOS 3.1 you could edit binary
using debug so there
And I bet there were some people who could stuff up the machine and then
use debug to trace through and fix everything... but I didn't. How many
times have you mucked up your dpkg files and not had any tools available
to you to edit bin. I am not trying to suggest that BIN is a good
replacement for script files.. .ie you can't boot up propperly and need to
fix a bootup script.. but there are some things that should be robust
enough that the likelyhood of being able to muck them up is very small.
The problem with the registry is that dam near everthing mucks with it how
often do you muck with the dpkg files and what level of privilage is
required.. When I do an apt upgrade I am root and while I am doing the
update I am not doing questionable thing to make the archive fail. It
appears that in DOZE every second app want's to write it's own little
graffiti in the registry like it is environment space. This isn't the
same as the dpkg files.
Dave
Nathan writes:
> You only need a shell to edit a text file.
Or _any_ text editor, including one running under a different OS on the
same or a different machine (or a hex debugger or a disk editor, for that
matter).
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John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
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