Eric S. Raymond writes: > Bad argument. The usage pattern you observe is not a law of nature, and we > *will* gratuitously piss people off if we do as you suggest. No: forcing > the use of -c is a non-starter. Admins would wonder why were fscking with > them, and they'd be right to wonder.
Well, you seem to imagine a demographic that doesn't exist where I live. I'm not going to argue that point any further. > You are both absolutely correct and making an argument that turns on > you. There are a zillion variations on how to structure a > config-snippet directory because nobody has yet figured out a > sufficiently right thing to become standard practice. If there were, > we'd both know it and we wouldn't be having this conversation. *shrugs* You're not the first to notice and you'll certainly not be the last. Here's one of the places where that leads to: http://augeas.net/tour.html The motivation for hierachical and distributed configurations (look no further than systemd) is usually the need to allow separate system-wide and per-user configurations or a desire to deliver partial configurations via separate packages that nevertheless should be used as a whole. This is something NTP will never need with the exception of the intended ntpd / refclockd split, although it could be argued that these two configurations should be kept cleanly separate. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Factory and User Sound Singles for Waldorf Blofeld: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#WaldorfSounds _______________________________________________ devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntpsec.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
