On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:14 PM, Lennart Poettering <mzerqung@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. So Fedora is the right place to discuss removal of its existing configuration, but not the design of the new configuration? Mirek -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
