Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>... which in turn >>allows us to decrease the complexity of /etc/. > > By what metric?
Does elegance have a metric? > You are adding a bunch of symlinks and weird > things like the proposed resolv.conf handling. The resolv.conf handling proposal is separate; I have been including it with the others because it depends on the implementation of /run/ and is motivated in part by the desire to eliminate one more variable file from /etc/. It is possible to deal with /etc/resolv.conf in the way you prefer: by replacing it with a symlink and changing programs so that they follow the symlink. That would be simpler than what is proposed ... in the short run. But if we change programs to follow a symlink and that leaves their battling-over-resolv.conf behavior unfixed then the result is a process that is more complex than necessary. It is a simpler process to change the programs once, properly, so that they all cooperate in updating resolv.conf. The framework that has been proposed for this cooperation is quite simple. I won't ask you by what metric you deem it 'weird'. -- Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
