On Friday 19 June 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 19 June 2009 00:08:04 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:45:50 +0100, Mick wrote: > > > Why did they *have* to move it to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6. > > > > They didn't, they moved it from there to /etc/conf.d where all the other > > rc config files live. > > > > > I am still confused with the difference between /etc/rc.conf > > > and /etc/conf.d/rc ... > > > > Then moved that one out of /etc/conf.d :( > > Lets not confuse the fellow with our awesome wit :-) > > Mick, it's a cleanup operation with openrc to get things a bit more sane. > > Unix let's you put config files any damn place you want them. So it's up to > you to put them someplace sane. The recent trend is to use a structure like > > /etc/thing.conf > /etc/thing.d/* > > The first one is used for global settings that affect the entire package > (or system in this case as it's openrc). > The second has individual files, one for each logical sub-section. Package > managers can then update individual bits independently - trying to do > updates to one massive file with sed is a distinctly non-trivial operation. > > With baselayout-1, the layout was a bit haphazard. baselayout-2 and openrc > took the opportunity to tidy all this up.
Thank you for the explanation. I am running stable x86 on all my boxen at the moment. I guess I'll have to become accustomed to the new set up soon. -- Regards, Mick
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