Ken Schneider - openSUSE said the following on 01/22/2013 12:26 PM:
On 01/22/2013 12:14 PM, Cristian Rodríguez pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
El 22/01/13 13:46, Anton Aylward escribió:
They will 'go away' when - and only when - you have an acceptable substitute. Right now they meet a few useful criteria
a) they are under /etc b) they are in a directory called "config' c) they are in files that correspond to the name of facility
Exactly. that's it.
What, a one great whopping file like Windows Registry?
Nope, just follow this simple rules:
a) if your software is configurable only through the command line, add a configuration file to it in .ini format.
This is NOT MS windows, please don't try and make it the same. If you like .ini files so much go back to using MS windows.
+1 Sorry, Cristian, what you say makes no sense and flies in the face of well established Linux conventions for configuration, both global and per-user. First you are going to have to make it clear why the current config files under /etc are 'ugly' and why .ini files are not 'ugly' and how the config files under /etc/ that use NAME = value is any different from from what you might find in a .ini file. Right now your argument seems very vague. -- An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them. --Werner Heisenberg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org