On Fri May 23 15:46:50 EDT 2014, [email protected] wrote: > > personally, i preferred the big switch statement in cpurc. it scales > > even to large installations, and has the advantage of being a little > > easier to get an overview. and there's no need for a bunch of files > > I think the argument is that it keeps as much as possible common > across all users (who use the labs distro), and keeps the site specific > stuff seperate - thus replica can overwrite the common files easily > when part of that changes. > > I guess you could say that its a workaround for the lack of a merge option > in replica/pull. > > I don't know if this is the real reason the ". config-a" files where added, > but its how I saw it.
i've never been able to keep /rc/bin/cpurc close to the distribution, so while the idea makes sense, i couldn't see the practical value for me. - erik
