On 4/9/19, Brad Rogers <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 9 Apr 2019 13:30:45 -0400 > Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello Lee, > >>> package installer may write the configs somewhere other than where the >>> creator does, for example. >>But they're still all text files - right? There's nothing like MS > > I'd hope so, yes. IOW, I'd hope the Debian maintainers don't change > config styles. Of course, there are several organisations that seem to > like SQLite for config files. I'm not sure what, if any, advantage > SQLite offers over plain text though. > >>Windows registry that you might have to clean after uninstalling >>something or installing in a different location? > > Almost certainly not. You should be awarethat distro maintained > packages usually put binaries in /usr/bin/, libraries in /usr/lib/ and > so on. Self-compiled software most often puts stuff under > /usr/local/bin/, /usr/local/libs/ etc. Occasionally, upon removal, some > stuff might get left behind, perhaps resulting in erratic behaviour. > Such things are rare, thankfully.
OK - good to know. Somehow I'd got the impression that systemd was moving to a windows registry type thing for config data instead of keeping it in plain text files. Thanks Lee
