On Wed, 10 May 2000 dg50@daimlerchrysler.com wrote:
> > There's no way anyone is going to move really basic stuff like
> > inetd.conf or passwd out of /etc. Too many preexisting things depend on
> > their locations.
>
> I disagree. I think it can be done, and should be done.
>
> "Too many preexisting programs depend on libc5 t change the C lib"
> "Too many preexisting machines depend on a.out file formats to move to ELF"
> ...and so on.
<rant>
Why do we need to create extra pain for heterogeneous setups? WTF make it
even more painful for every normal UNIX sysadmin who already has to deal
with zillions of morons^Wvendors with rectal itch to move the stuff
around? /etc/passwd not there? Too fscking bad and thank you for trying -
like hell I'll use this idiocy.
</rant>
Sigh... People, could we please recall that there is such thing
as compatibility? Yeah, I know, it's incompatible with the only other OS
known to most of current users anyway. But there is that thing called
"other Unices" and there is a long history of attempts to implement The
Grand New Schemes(tm) - just ask the victims of AIX, etc. Do we _really_
have to follow this tradition of vendor idiocy?
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