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On April 22, 2002 09:52 am, Todd Wright wrote: |
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> > What about a central config file, that would be able to |
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> > generate all other |
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> > related config... gentoo_config.xml, which when transformed using xslt, |
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> > would produce conf.d/net, conf.d/ntp, etc... |
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> I havnt seen anything in /etc/conf.d yet that couldnt/shouldnt be in |
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> /etc/rc.conf |
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> Either way, this is how it should be. We dont need all this extra (xml) pre |
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> processing. We just need a single config file (rc.conf) or a ../conf.d/ |
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> directory containing per package config variablle - but not both. |
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> If you want to edit a config setting, what could be simpler than editing |
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> the appropriate file, once, and in one place. |
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Like I said, I have not giving it much thought because I mostly was probing to |
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see if similar ideas have been discussed and what were their results. |
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I agree with you that there's not much simpler than editing the appropriate |
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file once and in a single place. But maybe the issue is about merging 10 |
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files instead of one or about automatic config file merging or about mapping |
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a user idea to an appropriate specific software config file. |
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We can't merge a single file instead of many because there's no such single |
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master config file. |
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We can't automatically merge config file because there's no way for a computer |
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at the present time to figure out what each config means other than being |
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text/token-value or other kind of cfg file. |
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We could re-write the whole linux system and make use a single config file but |
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I'm not up to that task. |
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Xml namespace seems to be great for that kind of stuff where a single file can |
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contain links to other files or content based on different namespace. Also |
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many software exist today and will be written to easily edit those type of |
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file. Project such as WebMin or Linux conf MAY already have started such |
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system, but they surely have not addresse the merging config issue that |
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gentoo users gets face with. |
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The issue is not such a big deal but I believe that solving it would then open |
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doors to very easy installation software (even easier than today) and also |
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remove the need to have documents for newbie on how to configure/continually |
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upgrade their system by writing graphical tools that map config file to UI. |
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Yannick Koehler |
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