On 22/04/01 01:04 -0400, Rajkumar Andrews spewed into the LI bitstream:
> a) The licensing part -- Sometimes in order to ensure "quality" a certain
> amount of restriction is good in an otherwise chaotic world. After all,
> Linus Torvalds still maintains a certain 'control' over the kernel.
Control as defined by Linus is a whole world different from DJB's idea :)
> b) Configuration -- well ... I would share your feelings that initially they
> look kinda weird: /var/qmail/.... is a world in itself! However, once you
Oh yes.
> to play around in those subdirectories then it is just a matter of "hanging
> around" and having fun. [/var/qmail/control for example simplifies things]
> [and the last line dot on a line by itself in /var/qmail/../assign is a neat
> trick to ensure nobody fools around or messes up the configuration].
It is clever, I dont deny it. However, when you want to do slightly more
complex stuff (say rewriting, regexp matching etc?)
-s
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