Once upon a time, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> said: > In this case there are sound > technical arguments against configuration by command line argument or > environment variable I haven't seen any, just statements that they are somehow "bad" and the new way is "better". Command line arguments and/or environment variables allow script-based startup to adapt to current conditions without having to edit a configuration file. Now maybe you could argue that every program should figure out relevant things for itself, but here in the real world, that will never be the case. The environment-variable type files in /etc/sysconfig also tend to be much easier to modify from a script than having to parse and edit random types of configuration files (since everybody seems to know how to do config files better than anybody else and their way is just a little bit different). -- Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
