On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 10:39 PM, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2014-10-15, Alec Ten Harmsel <a...@alectenharmsel.com> wrote: > >> The main problem (imnho) is that you think CentOS cares about >> configurability/multiple ways of doing things. > > Oh, I don't think that -- it's pretty obvious that in the RedHat > world, choice is not an option. It's one prix fixe menu, and you can > either eat what's set in front of you or go hungry. >
I can see the potential benefits of that. It sounds a bit like the whole convention over configuration approach. As long as the convention works, it does greatly simplify things. One thing I do like is the trend towards putting default configs in /usr and using /etc more for overrides. If everything went that way (and we stuck stuff like /var/lib/portage/world in /etc) then you could have an /etc with 20 short files in it that reflected all the tweaking you did to a system from a generic install. Sure, I love config protection and etc-keeper and the like, but I'd like it still better if etc wasn't such a mix. I'd really love it if I could dump 20 files in /etc and run emerge -uDNv world and end up with a system identical to the one those 20 files were copied from. -- Rich
