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Subject: Re: Announcing 2.0.5-950622-SNAP
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> > So *totally* divorce the configuration information from the *use* of the
> > configuration.
> 
> Well, that's sort of what /etc/sysconfig is eventually supposed to
> become.  Then you'd never overwrite the user's sysconfig file and
> would, at most, patch it to fold in whatever knobs had been added..

/ needs to be mountable read only.  /var/sysconfig (or similar).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@cs.weber.edu
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