Re: [gentoo-dev] Config Idea

[Yannick Koehler]

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On April 22, 2002 10:20 am, Alexander Gretencord wrote:
> On Monday 22 April 2002 15:52, Todd Wright wrote:
> > Either way, this is how it should be. We dont need all this extra (xml)
> > pre processing.
>
> ACK
>
> > We just need a single config file (rc.conf) or a ../conf.d/
> > directory containing per package config variablle - but not both.
>
> Well I don't like the idea of a single file. It's easier to have a
> directory with individual files so you can simply drop your file in there
> if you need it. Just like the env.d.
>
> That two different paradigma are just confusing is (one point for) why I
> don't like SuSE. They got a sysv init system but it just doesn't matter
> what you do to the symlinks, you gotta edit rc.config too.
>
> Alex

Note that xml could still allow you to have multiple file or a single one.  
Xml is made such that part of a file can be parse with different rules than 
other.  There's also XLink that allow  you to link xml content inside another 
file this allow someone to create many xml file and a master xml file telling 
where to look for the content.

This allow a choice about a single or multiple files.  

The issue I think you want to refer to is duplication.  Having a single or 
multiple xml cfg files + backward compatible cfg file could be a cost that 
will annoy users.  For that I have yet to think about something interesting 
but I'll try, maybe the solution would just be to generate the backward 
comptaible files in hidden mode or in a hidden folder.  That would make only 
advance users see them and play with them.

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Yannick Koehler
 
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