From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MHZBA-0000Jv-2i for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:10:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4CB4CE028E; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:10:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f220.google.com (mail-ew0-f220.google.com [209.85.219.220]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E617CE028E for ; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:10:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy20 with SMTP id 20so1772624ewy.34 for ; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:10:29 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=ScBpCZz151e8X7lqi7ZQ8opVmEMXQAhlnXzLBO8Ug8M=; b=Ibc/DhVpSCgPc+Cc2AQY72tnX2uJOZogXn9Ld3ZucyNqj8Mbj2vH45j7txpHU8eW2k recp3Jkm2hRryf59wtu48HkNA/iahjfYzZO+VZ5bV7IvM0cMnVtYIHTN2BGLiV3iIZ/1 t0m1KSIypOszbrroRAsdhTFipJiMCrrmGcyts= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=qxiBpnrIbI8q6nwTrgEYPPo2LqIEnbKX8sz2dShjB5eWnTIACLV1G/zwxHGKWuZdx6 3w8/WaDNZKyjP5Y+cIUrCOgxabZMWnXoJoskeaqbC+8uGOhJPpEMsPAOyviqZJtahI/i o4Xn18CUu+N6DKksWCTbJtmpRJ+cH3Axw0gvU= Received: by 10.210.28.4 with SMTP id b4mr309598ebb.5.1245399029011; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:10:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-153-123-rrdg-esr-2.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.153.123]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 28sm35205eye.46.2009.06.19.01.10.27 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:10:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Canonical place to list modules to load Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:08:55 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.4 (Linux/2.6.30-gentoo; KDE/4.2.4; x86_64; ; ) References: <8763evgcv1.fsf@newsguy.com> <200906182246.02252.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20090618230804.16df077d@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20090618230804.16df077d@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200906191008.55805.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 95cdfdec-6053-4e5a-879c-ede0e1965d8a X-Archives-Hash: ecc7cc65d1a84906a67f051508dbb783 On Friday 19 June 2009 00:08:04 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:45:50 +0100, Mick wrote: > > Why did they *have* to move it to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6. > > They didn't, they moved it from there to /etc/conf.d where all the other > rc config files live. > > > I am still confused with the difference between /etc/rc.conf > > and /etc/conf.d/rc ... > > Then moved that one out of /etc/conf.d :( Lets not confuse the fellow with our awesome wit :-) Mick, it's a cleanup operation with openrc to get things a bit more sane. Unix let's you put config files any damn place you want them. So it's up to you to put them someplace sane. The recent trend is to use a structure like /etc/thing.conf /etc/thing.d/* The first one is used for global settings that affect the entire package (or system in this case as it's openrc). The second has individual files, one for each logical sub-section. Package managers can then update individual bits independently - trying to do updates to one massive file with sed is a distinctly non-trivial operation. With baselayout-1, the layout was a bit haphazard. baselayout-2 and openrc took the opportunity to tidy all this up. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com