On 06/15/2009 02:11 AM, Tim wrote: > On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 13:26 -0400, Mail Lists wrote: >> Either way - there should only be one set of files - period. Links are >> pointless. > > No, not really. A GUI tool can work on a chrooted or non-chrooted > system if there are symlinks to the chrooted files. > > e.g. /etc/named.conf is a symlink to /var/named/chroot/var/etc/named.conf > And a tool that edits /etc/named.conf doesn't know, nor care, whether > it's operating directly on that file, or the chrooted one. > > But without the symlinks, you need two tools: One for the chrooted, or > another for the non-chrooted files. Or one that magically works on the > right file. > > That is just bad app design - the app needs to learn about which root to use for the config files - should be settable. No app should rely on some non-standard links just coz its the easy way. Its not a lot of work to fix this correctly. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
