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On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 09:31:08PM -0600, William Hubbs wrote: |
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> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 09:47:05PM -0500, Wyatt Epp wrote: |
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> > But let's be real here: if I install something and |
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> > want to configure its system-wide bits, the first place I go is ALWAYS |
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> > /etc. When I don't find it there, with the rest of the system config |
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> > files, my day gets a little worse and I lose a bit of time trying to |
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> > interrogate a search engine for the answer. And that's annoying. |
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> > That sucks. |
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> This hasn't changed. |
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> The configuration files these packages are putting in /lib are not |
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> meant to be edited; they are the package provided defaults. If you want |
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> to override one of them, you do that in a file with the same path and |
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> name in /etc, like I mentioned in another message in this thread. |
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The problem, as has been explained many many times, is that the rest |
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of the config is somewhere random on the system. But you knew that, |
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right? You were just telling a half-truth, effectively. |
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I for one prefer a distro to do a bit of work and make my life easier, |
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since it makes life easier for everyone who uses the distro. Why the |
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hell should I care if some bindist can't etc-update? WTF does that |
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have to do with Gentoo? |
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If I wanted a shitty distro that didn't bother to do anything at |
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all, I'd use LFS. At least they don't pretend, then fall over themselves |
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to do a crap load of work rather than admit a mistake; that hey, y'know |
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what? Some of those things from 30 years ago were a damn good idea, |
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and maybe just maybe, they worked some of these issues out back then, |
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so we could stand on their shoulders instead of digging through |
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their garbage. |
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