Re: Question about Facility names

[Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca>]

Chmouel Boudjnah writes:
> Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:
> 
> > > and what make difference of putting as shell variable or as tags ?
> > I dont have to run the script to find the values
> 
> and why not the installer parse these value ?

Firstly, any parsing is inherently limited. Are you going to write a
parser that takes care of conditionals?

Secondly, I hate having to run everything through an installer. It's
another level of indirection and complexity (and a step I can forget).
I want the sysadmin to be able to author and drop in a script and have
it just work. If you require an installer, many times you will
generate the following sequence for sysadmins:
- write script
- chmod a+x script
- reboot
- doesn't work
- "oh, shit"
- run the installer
- reboot
- "sigh. Damn installer".

				Regards,

					Richard....
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