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Jason Rhinelander posted <40F82EE5.5030501@××××××××××××××××.com>, |
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excerpted below, on Fri, 16 Jul 2004 12:39:17 -0700: |
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> Again, basically what Kudzu does. To be honest, way back when I used |
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> Redhat and/or Mandrake, I found the automatic hardware detection |
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> terribly annoying. |
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Fresh from Mandrake, here, and no kidding about the annoying detection. |
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For one thing, if I let it do its thing, it would have killed my very |
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carefully constructed comments in for instance fstab. One time I let it |
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do so and it munched the comments into what it thought were a whole bunch |
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of mountpoints, so when I rebooted, I had all sorts of new root level dirs |
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named things like "the", "fs", etc, all the things that had been in my |
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comments, since it "helpfully" created all those dirs, so the non-existent |
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file systems could be mounted on them. <g> |
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If their stupid automated tools could learn to leave comments intact, and |
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above the lines they were commenting about, the tools might have |
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actually been worth something, but.. |
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Now.. I DID like to use their nice visual diskdrake for partitioning, |
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etc.. only I learned NEVER to let it write the changes to fstab, only |
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using it to create and format the partitions. When it asked to write the |
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fstab changes (and thankfully it DID ask, gotta give them credit for |
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that), I'd say no, and do it manually, so I knew exactly what I had, and |
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it stayed in the format I wanted it. |
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The same thing, of course, applied to their XF86Config tools. After the |
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initial generation, I never let them touch it again, because I had |
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painstaking manual setups in there for my multi-head xinerama thing, and |
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their took found that to complex to deal with. |
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I never tried their auto-lilo.conf editor. However, due to the fact that |
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I was running an unusual setup there as well, and with the experience I |
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had with the other tools, that was probably a good thing. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little |
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temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- |
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Benjamin Franklin |
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