[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joey Hess) wrote on 22.02.98 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > As to the conffile not being a configuration file, I think you > > are wrong on that issue (you doubtless feel I am wrong). I think this > > is a time for some deadlock breakage to occur. > > Yes, at least it's time to get some one else's input. If anyone else cares > and if we haven't scared them off. > > > I think we have reached a point where neither one of us is > > saying anything new. > > Yes. > > > If you think policy is restrictive, get it changed. > > That's why I cc'd this to debian-policy and asked for an explination of what > people thought that paragraph meant and why it was originally put in the > policy manual. Were you there? Do you remember? It was well before my time.. Well, here's _some_ input. And just as a reference point, my /etc is currently around 3.5 MB, including these files: 6579 536 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 548292 Feb 16 02:58 /etc/termcap 7102 119 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 120882 Oct 11 00:57 /etc/magic 7213 183 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 186499 Oct 16 1995 /etc/termcap.old --- snip --- Gary Barnes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Vadim Vygonets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > : > :ObLinux: when I was in Debian, on their development mailing list > :I started something close to a flame war trying to convince them > :not to put _all_ of the config files (including (yeah, but not > :limited to) fstab, lynx.cfg, several emacs conffiles) in /etc. > ^^^^^ > :They told me, "use <insert your favorite remote files distribution > :proggie>" and "1M more on a root partition won't kill you". > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Dunno about you, but I think having fstab on the root partition is a > probably not that bad an idea. Umm, maybe I'm dumb, but not _that_ dumb. I intentionally included fstab in the list as one thing that _must_ be on root partition. To show the difference. Maybe I just had to make it clear. Vadik. -- I tried cp /proc/kcore /dev/audio on my home Linux system and distinctly heard John Lennon saying "I buried Paul". -- Jonathan Guthrie at asr --- snip --- MfG Kai
