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Date:      Sat, 02 Feb 2002 18:54:30 -0800
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        "Brian T.Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org>
Cc:        Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>, Paul Fardy <pdfardy@mac.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Junior Annoying Hacker Task
Message-ID:  <3C5CA666.9BC2BC06@mindspring.com>
References:  <5F46C986-16DB-11D6-8CEC-00039359034A@mac.com> <20020202110330.C16801@freebie.xs4all.nl> <3C5BCA46.713B1950@mindspring.com> <20020202145852.6781C407B@i8k.babbleon.org>

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"Brian T.Schellenberger" wrote:
> No, it's not, because it still maintains a separation between "system"
> control (rc.conf) and application control (/var/packges).
> 
> It's more like config.sys or something . . .

Oh, ya got me!  Oh!  Oh!

Yeah... config.sys... MUCH better... 8-) 8-).

...actually, I'd point at the sendmail and natd and other
programs that can be replaced, and should probably be
"installer's choice", rather than being named by
application name in rc.conf.

You'd have a better argument if these things were named
by function, rather than by program name.

I think, also, that if you look at Windows XP, you'll see
that the per application data has been seperated into a
per application configuration space, to keep it from
breaking anything.  That's more like a ".Xdefaults".

I guess NIH beats an idea to death, even if the original
implementation bears no resemblence to the current one.

8-p

-- Terry

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