From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: splite@purdue.edu To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Installed Plan 9, now what? Message-ID: <20031209183353.GA5257@sigint.cs.purdue.edu> References: <200312090454.hB94skl24638@augusta.math.psu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200312090454.hB94skl24638@augusta.math.psu.edu> Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 13:33:53 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9e8d0e82-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 11:54:45PM -0500, Dan Cross wrote: > But, what's a better alternative? I'm all eyes. The Windows registry? *ducks* I have to agree with Charles and Geoff. The only thing .local files buy you is overwrite protection, which is already provided by pull. You still have to check that your overrides in .local are valid. Is there a way around that problem that doesn't involve Star Trek-type AI or mind reading? Ultimately, it's the price one pays for the flexibility of expressing configuration info as shell scripts instead of a database (or registry) of predetermined, paramaterized, versioned configuration variables.