Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 15:03:49 +0200 From: Stefan Lambrev <stefan.lambrev@moneybookers.com> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading to 7.0 - stupid requirements Message-ID: <47E65535.1030903@moneybookers.com> In-Reply-To: <200803230420.m2N4Kl6O078184@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> References: <868x0ezh9u.fsf@zid.claresco.hr> <200803192028.m2JKSZen098816@lurza.secnetix.de> <20080323000707.GA33311@fupp.net> <200803230420.m2N4Kl6O078184@hergotha.csail.mit.edu>
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Garrett Wollman wrote: > In article <b269bc570803222059o7b52c8d8p9fa0fdbfed273ba0@mail.gmail.com>, > Freddie Cash writes: > > >> Oh, gods, please, no! That is one of the things I absolutely hate >> about Debian (and its derivatives). There are some packages on Debian >> where they use separate text files for each configuration option >> (ProFTPd, for examples). It is a huge mess of directories and files >> that makes it a *royal* PITA to edit at the CLI. >> >> Yes, a scheme like that is better for GUI tools, but it really makes >> things more difficult for non-GUI users/uses (like headless servers >> managed via SSH). >> > > Try managing a few hundred mostly-but-not-entirely-identical machines > and you really begin to appreciate the value of this approach. It is > orders of magnitude easier to drop one file into the central config > repository that does *one thing* than it is to manage a dozen > not-quite-identical copies of a monolithic configuration file, keeping > in sync the parts that are supposed to be in sync, and keeping the > parts that are supposed to be different, different. > > If FreeBSD were able to do this, it might have a bit more traction at > my place of employment. > I'm little puzzled. What actually FreeBSD and current portsystem + tools are not able to do?!?! You mean "I do not know how to do it" may be? > -GAWollman > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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