Neil Darlow wrote: > > On 3/7/02, 12:42:05 PM, Arthur H. Johnson II wrote: > > > How is creating the symlinks yourself any less clean than using a > > program to create the symlinks "automatically?" I think this is mostly > > a difference of opinion. > > Simply, that by using update-rc.d no knowledge of the directory structure > of /etc/rcN.d or /etc/init.d is required. The utility also makes > acceptable > assumptions depending on how much command line information is provided.
Sorry, but I concur with this. Most of programming is defining some kind of interface to something else, and a valuable thing to do is to use the highest reasonable level of abstraction to simplify the task. If you show a specific value to doing the symlinks by hand for a specific circumstance it may be a good idea, but I think it's a bad generalized idea. In addition to this it's valuable to have a good vocabulary grasp of the tools that your peers are using as a standard. Best wishes. Sincerely, Xeno > > Regards, > Neil Darlow M.Sc. > -- > 1024D/531F9048 1999-09-11 Neil Darlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > GPG Fingerprint = 359D B8FF 6273 6C32 BEAA 43F9 E579 E24A 531F 9048 > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.eskimo.com/~xeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physically I'm at: 5101 N. 45th St., Tacoma, WA, 98407-3717, U.S.A.
