on /etc/sysconfig

[Adam Williamson]

On Mon, 2011-07-18 at 23:14 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Mon, 18.07.11 21:57, Richard W.M. Jones (rjones at redhat.com) wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 02:46:30PM -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
> > > This article recommends ending /etc/sysconfig
> > > 
> > > http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/on-etc-sysinit.html
> > 
> > I'm sympathetic to Lennart's arguments, but really this should be
> > discussed and decided in the context of a real, open forum, drawing
> > interested people from all of the Linux distros (possibly BSD etc
> > too).  Perhaps LSB?
> 
> Whether to get rid of /etc/sysconfig is a decision for Fedora and only
> Fedora, since it's a Fedoraism. Other distros have similar dirs, but
> under different names and with different contents.

Mandriva uses the same directory. Mainly as an inheritance from Red Hat,
to be sure.
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Adam Williamson
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