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On Monday 13 May 2002 05:50, James Vandenberg wrote: |
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> This is what Luke at Mon, May 13, 2002 at 11:53:42AM +1000 wrote: |
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> > Youve spent a lot of time thinking about the details of your |
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> > system, without answering one simple question. |
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> > Why is this needed? |
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> For one very simple reason. It makes life easier for system |
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> administrators, users, and maintainers. |
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> An example is with Inetd/Xinetd. These two programs have the same |
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> function, but wildly different configuration file formats. Now how |
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> should the telnet daemon be installed? Should it give an example of |
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> how it should be installed in inetd syntax, or xinetd syntax? So if |
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> it tells me how to install telnet into inetd, but I'm running xinetd, |
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> it doesn't help me as much as if it were in xinetd syntax. |
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its actually quite simply: don't use inetd! |
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i know, you meant this to be an example - but things are not meant to be |
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simple in gentoo linux. we want users to learn the tools they use - and |
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not force upon them some distribution specific way of doing things |
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thats one of the reasons gentoo is so great in the first place... |
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yes, you still may find examples of this - but it is only in places |
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where it is absolutely necessary (java-config) |
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> James, |
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regards | Please file bugreports here: |
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Thilo | http://bugs.gentoo.org |
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