On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Alon Altman wrote:
> Also, consider making /etc a special filesystem that is actually an
> interface to the configuration daemon for legacy applications. It will need
> to know how to parse common config files, while keeping others as plain
> text.
This sensible idea raises the following issue:
Several applications, which are configured from /etc, look also for a dot
file in the user's home directory, and use its contents to override the
/etc copy of the configuration.
How can those home directory configuration files be managed under the
new scheme? How much will the applications have to be modified to allow
per-user configuration with special /etc filesystem?
--- Omer
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