Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin Makefile src/usr.bin/pkg_radd Makefile pkg_radd.1 pkg_radd.sh

["Thomas E. Spanjaard" <tgen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hasso Tepper wrote:
> Victor Balada Diaz wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 04:02:43PM +0100, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
> > > Victor Balada Diaz wrote:
> > > > I think /etc/settings.conf is a poor choice for a file name. It's
> > > > too generic. Why don't we call it /etc/pkgs.conf or something like
> > > > that?
> > > The rationale was to have a generic file to put in various settings,
> > > so that we don't have to add a file for each single configuration.
> > >
> > > I'd like to have a config file which is similar to rc.conf, just not
> > > for rc but for the system configuration.
> > That's a very bad idea. rc.conf does have one task, and does it
> > well. settings.conf can be used for a lot of different apps that
> > have nothing in common. If you look at windows world, that reminds
> > me of the registry: one place shared by a lot of apps that have
> > become a huge mess.
> >
> > On unix world the philosophy is to have a lot of small apps that do
> > one task and do it well, so i think that with configuration files
> > we should do the same.
> >
> > In this case i think the best thing for just one setting would be
> > an environment variable.
> +1

+1

Cheers,
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        Thomas E. Spanjaard
        tgen@netphreax.net

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