On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 11:23:09 -0400 Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Maybe for embedded or livecd? Maybe for people that don't use > logrotate? > I would add a more general reason which is that this kind of "something.d" config files are much more invasive than others, and thus should always be optional. Adding a config file in an /etc/something.d is just like merging some config changes in an /etc/something.conf without waiting for the user to do his "etc-update". Take for instance someone who has a logrotate cronjob for some of his log files, but not the apache ones because for this ones he has very special needs and scripts: if his next apache update blindly installs a logrotate.d file, he may not appreciate it at all... -- TGL. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
