On Mon, 18.07.11 21:57, Richard W.M. Jones (rjones@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 02:46:30PM -0400, Neal Becker wrote: > > This article recommends ending /etc/sysconfig > > > > http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/on-etc-sysinit.html > > I'm sympathetic to Lennart's arguments, but really this should be > discussed and decided in the context of a real, open forum, drawing > interested people from all of the Linux distros (possibly BSD etc > too). Perhaps LSB? Whether to get rid of /etc/sysconfig is a decision for Fedora and only Fedora, since it's a Fedoraism. Other distros have similar dirs, but under different names and with different contents. LSB has no beef with this really, since the question is whether to get rid of it -- not whether to standardize it. > So I don't think changes like this, and /etc/machine-id, and > /etc/os-release and others should come by fiat, although (again) I'm > very sympathetic to why these things are being done. These interfaces introduced by systemd are actually discussed in quite some detail on the systemd irc channel and mailing list. It's a very open forum, you are welcome to join. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
