From: Martin Neubauer <m.ne@gmx.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] system wide profile for rc(1)
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 00:09:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061212230908.GA1969@shodan.homeunix.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87irghney0.fsf@jorgito.magma.com.ni>
Hello,
I'm not quite sure what you want to achieve there (well, maybe I'm just
slow). The net gain I see is two extra lines in rcmain and one additional
file (actually two files) doing more or less the same as before. The two
main usage scenarios I can think of would be a system used mainly by a
single person and a system (or network of systems) used by a potentially
large and diverse group of users. For a singleuser system that separation
is more or less useless. For a multiuser system it might look like a good
idea at first, but I value the convenience of having all settings I might
want to customise in one place (especially as I get it via newuser anyway).
The newuser script arguably is simpler, but the change really hasn't got
anything to do with a system-wide profile and as a downside makes it no
longer self-contained.
All in all it's a little exercise in establishing a system policy for those
who want it. Speaking for myself, it would certainly make me sad to see the
rise of the POSIX-rc...
Martin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-12 23:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-12 18:31 Georg Lehner
2006-12-12 23:09 ` Martin Neubauer [this message]
2006-12-12 23:16 ` Russ Cox
2006-12-13 0:06 ` Martin Neubauer
2006-12-13 23:10 ` Georg Lehner
2006-12-13 0:30 ` Georg Lehner
2006-12-13 0:43 ` geoff
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