Re: Debian unstable vs Ubuntu

[Wim De Smet <kromagg@gmail.com>]

Hi,
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 23:07:56 -0700, Marc Wilson <msw@cox.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 09:03:25PM +0200, Andreas Janssen wrote:
> > What exactly does modconf do other than load a module and save it's name
> > to /etc/modules? If you want to manage modules on your own, add their
> > lines to /etc/modules.
> 
> Yeah, modconf is one of the more useless things Debian has ever come up
> with.  The entire idea of /etc/modules ranks a close second.
> [snip]

What alternative would you suggest to /etc/modules? I think it's an
entirely easy way to have modules load at boot. I don't really see
what's so useless about it...

greets,
Wim