Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 16:42:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Joseph Mallett <jmallett@newgold.net> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Just an observation - MUA's seen in the lists Message-ID: <Pine.BSO.4.21.0104141636440.5404-100000@aphex.newgold.net> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010414133447.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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Yes but if it's done in Windows(tm) it's a Bad Thing (sm), however when a
Unix does it, moreover, FreeBSD, it's known as centralising configuration.
As some people may recall, .ini files used to be the Big Thing (tm) for
Windows(tm) configuration settings, Microsoft(r?) decided that they
should centralise configuration for 1) Standardisation 2) Ease of
backup/restoration 3) Possibly other reasons?
Imagine having to do this to back up configuration:
find / -name '*.conf' -exec cp {} /backup/ ';'
And then imagine restoring everything to its proper home.
And then imagine all the files you missed because application X decided it
didn't want to name its files with .conf, X11 comes to mind.
Anyway, it isn't bad, it's a good, efficient idea, or at least, the best
one someone's found that I know of, or at least, that Microsoft/Unix/Apple
would care to use.
(Apologies if someone wanted this _direct_ to them, but at this point it
isn't a direct response to all of those people, and I know personally I
don't always like 2 copies of every message related to something I
commented on somewhere a long time ago.)
/joseph
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On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, John Baldwin wrote:
>
> On 14-Apr-01 Brett Glass wrote:
> > At 05:42 AM 4/14/2001, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
> >
> >>And what would you call the Windows registry?
> >>
> >>The only thing people can do if the registry is damaged is reinstall
> >>everything. That's always an option on any operating system, but
> >>(except in some bizarre situation) you never have to resort to that on
> >>FreeBSD.
> >
> > The Windows Registry is an abomination. It puts all of a system's
> > eggs in one fragile, insecure basket.
>
> s/Windows Registry/netinfo database/, s/Windows Registry/\/etc directory/, etc.
> The whole system is a fragile basket. This is why we have the nifty feature
> known as 'backups'.
>
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