2009/4/3 Rev Simon Rumble <[email protected]> > This one time, at band camp, Daniel Bush wrote: > > > I don't always like the way debian (and perhaps by extension ubuntu) > modify > > the conf files and arrange things for various software - I don't want to > > have to figure out the debian-way on top of figuring out the software > itself > > Wait a second, you'd rather learn where every piece of software you > install puts its config files rather than the single place you'll find > all config files with any Debian package? > > This, for me, is the best thing about Debian! Configuration is in > /etc/. Not /use/opt/lib/conf/ or wherever the weirdo who wrote the > software thinks config files should go since he started using Unix on > one of the proprietary "open" systems in the seventies and that was the > place it put them. If config isn't in /etc/, it's a bug.
Yo. I'm with you man! What I meant was the way some confs etc are done in /etc. I've been using freebsd (just learning) and the /etc/ssh/sshd_config was done slightly differently and looked like it was taken from the project/openbsd with some modifications (I don't know for sure but it sort of says it at the top and spells out the rationale for the whole conf file). At the time I was setting the system up I remember thinking that I preferred it. But this extra layer of debian-ness is also a good thing as it creates standardisation. Noone inheriting a box from me has to work out the crazy way I structured apache if I adhere to the debian way etc etc -- Daniel Bush http://blog.web17.com.au http://github.com/danielbush/sifs/tree/master http://github.com/danielbush -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
