On 9/19/10, Dagobert Michelsen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Phil, > > Am 18.09.2010 um 16:51 schrieb Philip Brown: >... >> the reason I'm being particular about this, is that it would seem far >> more likely to me for a site to want to have all machines deploy mutt >> with the SAME configuration.(and I have had specific experience as a >> site admin doing this with mutt ) >> >> Putting the default location in /etc makes that much more difficult. >> whereas if you put the default in /opt/csw/etc, they could make it a >> symlink, in the unlikely event they wanted zones to be different > > Either way, by symlinking /etc/opt/csw/muttrc to /opt/csw/etc/muttrc or > vice versa you can have the desired behaviour.
That has the same behaviour for an end user, but not for sysadmin. If you say the default is /etc/opt/csw/muttrc, and you then require to symlink back to /opt/csw/etc for supporting a single global config.. the admin then has to hit Every Single Machine, and make that symlink. That can be irritating to maintain, for a site that is centered around global configurations, like a simple shared /opt/csw *our* "user" is the sysadmin, and we are supposed to be making things easier for "our users". > That being said I would > value consistency higher than to select where configs are put on a > package-by-package basis. And as we have decided with /etc/opt/csw as > default for configurations I think it is better to put everything in > there as you can still link back if you need it. "consistency" does not mean "no exceptions". Also, I believe that there was still agreed support for global, non-/etc/opt configurations, *IF* it makes more sense. So then the question is, does it make more sense? Do you agree, or disagree, with my premise, that it is "[far more] likely ...for a site to want to have all machines deploy mutt with the SAME configuration." If you, and/or other who are regular mutt admins, can honestly say that it is now more likely to have machine-unique mutt configs, then I'll let this go. However, I'm skeptical that things have changed that much since last I was a sysadmin for mutt. _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
