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 1MHikC-000805-0F for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:23:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7BCC9E02B4; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:23:18 +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 27AFFE02B4 for ; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:23:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy20 with SMTP id 20so2178520ewy.34 for ; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:23:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=EJRidKhL4RxNjaZVT7PMA0OJK929CGnJ7TKlHMJAmQ0=; b=Gj6eBJno60A73uBbosRe9tPNCorA1aC8HzkMQaM3Se2hIDOU/p0lZaChkN9a6kimHX +NYR1IGjPHXZ5MTDu6XRETEivPsoBFVKkKot86v4KhBWkJavm7f6//1rQwAuc3xnfv8T vMAybMGIIjtmEfChswFFJjzZTqSbds/OQT4jI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=fX35NJBsoywrtRvugzfaiiHwLg8mNwF5Alj8Fkub3CUamXaadr6TUzrhJE0aluHs+m izMxeB9G2gsNXv4HxM0pDohovkMir6ol/K71Dr1msnk4YEy76rDaDlWGDr2vwHXNf/tZ c8iEmsgDmou/z/lrDs2/cWCbNPpn12mrmFRis= Received: by 10.210.91.17 with SMTP id o17mr1288948ebb.37.1245435797438; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:23:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lappy.study (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 10sm158397eyz.11.2009.06.19.11.23.16 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:23:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Canonical place to list modules to load Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:23:02 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <8763evgcv1.fsf@newsguy.com> <20090618230804.16df077d@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> <200906191008.55805.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200906191008.55805.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> 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: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2420671.rubZKmPD1c"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200906191923.14268.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 2abab17f-7647-463d-b7c3-0cdbae7725c4 X-Archives-Hash: 56d4195fce5935e63d0d6321f2b90178 --nextPart2420671.rubZKmPD1c Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Friday 19 June 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > 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 li= ke > > /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 operatio= n. > > With baselayout-1, the layout was a bit haphazard. baselayout-2 and openrc > took the opportunity to tidy all this up. Thank you for the explanation. I am running stable x86 on all my boxen at the moment. I guess I'll have t= o=20 become accustomed to the new set up soon. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart2420671.rubZKmPD1c Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAko715IACgkQVTDTR3kpaLa+VwCgmaHSU/OwWrs2RSz0PNr8mds5 rsAAnRJTzySCGwVaNMX4A0OjXZFYlVHc =BYo+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2420671.rubZKmPD1c--