[2043] in Release_7.7_team
Re: contents of athena-base package
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Wed Jan 12 11:00:41 2000
To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>, release-team@MIT.EDU,
source-developers@MIT.EDU
From: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Date: 12 Jan 2000 11:00:28 -0500
In-Reply-To: Jonathon Weiss's message of "Wed, 12 Jan 2000 01:19:02 -0500"
Message-ID: <u1h4scje0v7.fsf@pusey.mit.edu>
Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU> writes:
> I'm not sure what you mean by split them out into seperate scripts.
> Teh idea of splitting them into seperate files per variable makes
> sense, however, those files shouldn't need to be scripts, and should
> all be in one place, so it doesn't get too much harder to edit a bunch
> of them. We should consider asking the support folks whether a change
> of this nature is likely to cause them a problem. I suspect rc.conf
> may be referenced in several documents.
They would all be in the same directory.
They would be scripts, in that they would be source, and contain lines
like FOO=bar. I would not envision them containing any real
programming at all.
