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Re: Comments on rc-athena package
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Nygren)
Mon Feb 5 19:11:51 1996
To: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Erik Nygren <nygren@MIT.EDU>, Emil Sit <sit@MIT.EDU>, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 05 Feb 1996 16:18:38 EST."
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Date: Mon, 05 Feb 1996 19:11:09 EST
From: Erik Nygren <nygren@MIT.EDU>
>> Just to explain what I mean by using 'sed' to modify rc.conf... I
>> think that if we have a coherent Linux-Athena installation, the
>> rc.athena and rc.conf files would get installed first and then each
>> package that gets installed would modigy rc.conf appropriately. For
>> example, installing Linux-AFS would set AFSCLIENT=true; installing the
>> zephyr package would set ZCLIENT=true; etc.
If we're going to do this, I think going with the SGI model
of rc and config files might be better and cleaner.
The basic idea is to have separate files for each config option
and a separate rc file for each package. I can explain
in more detail if people are interested.
Erik
