From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 15:49:04 -0400 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <026f8d18ea0523ab97649904237559fe@ladd.quanstro.net> In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] [GSOC] auth server: connection refused Topicbox-Message-UUID: efe9cd36-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Fri May 23 15:46:50 EDT 2014, steve@quintile.net wrote: > > personally, i preferred the big switch statement in cpurc. it scales > > even to large installations, and has the advantage of being a little > > easier to get an overview. and there's no need for a bunch of files > > I think the argument is that it keeps as much as possible common > across all users (who use the labs distro), and keeps the site specific > stuff seperate - thus replica can overwrite the common files easily > when part of that changes. > > I guess you could say that its a workaround for the lack of a merge option > in replica/pull. > > I don't know if this is the real reason the ". config-a" files where added, > but its how I saw it. i've never been able to keep /rc/bin/cpurc close to the distribution, so while the idea makes sense, i couldn't see the practical value for me. - erik