Dino Nardini writes:
>thicker). And I like the new section on Linuxconf, although there is still
>no reference to the modules (an oversight?).
Not an oversight, intentional.
We haven't tested the modules like we have the core, and in fact we know
of incompatibilities in the modules. We ship them so that people can use
them if they know about them (and thus, presumably, know what they are
getting themselves into), but with, for example, a dnsconf that doesn't
speak bind 8 (Jacques added that well after we froze 5.2) we could not
enable it by default in a distribution that includes bind 8...
Whenever we are sure that a module works, we intend to enable it by
default, continuing to use the module-loading interface as a barrier
against ignorance, keeping people's machines sane. :-)
>(2) Linuxconf loaded just fine from the command prompt but it couldn't find
>a makemap reference in "/usr/lib/linuxconf/redhat/DIST/conf.daemons", which
Good example of why we don't enable those modules by default -- they have
not had the level of testing we need. It was struggle enough to make the
core work reliably, and we had so much fixing to do even just in the core
that we couldn't even get most of the new features added that we wanted.
Such is life. At least the core appears to be stable, and those who want
the added features are likely to upgrade to Jacques' new versions anyway.
michaelkjohnson
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