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Re: Comments on rc-athena package
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Mon Feb 5 21:09:47 1996
To: Erik Nygren <nygren@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Emil Sit <sit@MIT.EDU>, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 05 Feb 1996 19:11:09 EST."
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Date: Mon, 05 Feb 1996 18:09:19 PST
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
> 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.
i understand the model but it doesn't make sense under Linux. First,
it sort of requires a sysv init, which Linux doesn't really have. If
we had it, then sure, doing one config file per "package" would be the
right thing to do. But in this case I think the rc.athena/rc.conf
scheme is the best way to go.
-derek
