-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Cassiano Leal wrote: >> What is the point of having all info stored in plain text files if one >> is supposed to only use tools to edit them? They might as well be >> binary. Or is it perhaps so other tools can easily read them? > > You can easily edit them with whatever you want. If you do have a > frontend, like a configurator and you like it, use it. If you don't, you > can always use your favorite text editor. This is freedom. > > Also, this makes it possible for one to change configurations via > scripts (bash, perl, python, whatever), which opens a lot of doors, > thinking server/workstation administration.
That is what I thought. It would be a pain when upgrading, if all the conf changes were automatically overritten, but that is why it is important to document changes. I did have that happen to me, but it wasn't because I upgraded. I reinstalled from scratch and then had to make the same changes over again; it was to be expected. Why did I reinstall when I really didn't need to? Because my packages were broken to the point where I was at a loss of how to fix them and I knew that reinstalling and redoing the few changes I made would be faster than trying to fix the broken packages. If /home is on a different partition, reinstalling a system (or changing distributions) is trivial. But the point is, Windows mentality is still present here. I guess the OP wanted to know why he didn't have the freedom to use a tool to configure the network. I think it's because most of the development for that sort of thing has been in the GUI world so that new users would have to use the CLI less and less. I find the little Konsole button on my panel at the top of my screen is one of the most used apps on my system. I love the command line. Joe - -- Registerd Linux user #443289 at http://counter.li.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF+5GRiXBCVWpc5J4RAvZqAKChK5SJmQM60IydDcPpsD7NuHMkkwCgmH/S ddOLrh4LTz3gNazblSRLldo= =uISz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
