From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BCCD1387D4 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2014 03:14:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 142FBE094F; Wed, 15 Oct 2014 03:14:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vc0-f193.google.com (mail-vc0-f193.google.com [209.85.220.193]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A783AE08F1 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2014 03:14:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-vc0-f193.google.com with SMTP id hq12so81690vcb.8 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2014 20:14:14 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=BrJ77IZ0IHONhSU/4BPmhOJjnwRJKeZ6f23sqbMk7ec=; b=BHijRgK2VEmePOyutfRIjXzHF5LvCIkH08WH1YLsLk2sS1jkdrq+2LWdKDN/fMjNSH +eyz5roeUp4Jwoahu4unsoOzPTHdW3Q18mibJgITOxOhb/qAMOxhw4eQveocAI6l5lja ZWFAJJkLHRw3AEOEpWPb9TER2kLy4UlFyFnq61XMh9pojSJFZgbjplCJCfhvgOjsuttn mrRxkJhSrFz+xz+HuFj32rDR6fjDn1Mn3H3J2T9bHm1sUC3zspu2xlwyKpqF0Z3lOTUe /qfGJpEFfpnlUp7VH0XFESTPXh/SGpWtAjZiLRBFY4860hd2JEBr2e+pWfv1UgbReG52 ud1w== 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 X-Received: by 10.220.163.135 with SMTP id a7mr9397331vcy.3.1413342854693; Tue, 14 Oct 2014 20:14:14 -0700 (PDT) Sender: freemanrich@gmail.com Received: by 10.52.8.229 with HTTP; Tue, 14 Oct 2014 20:14:14 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <543DBD20.6000307@alectenharmsel.com> Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 23:14:14 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: cmP84k41dYLHDHO8c7IohJRVjtU Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Six non-Gentoo installs From: Rich Freeman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 64f58fbb-f7cc-404a-86ac-dbaa842136b5 X-Archives-Hash: 9e74bf9e42a39a644b839fb9c1a28f92 On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 10:39 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2014-10-15, Alec Ten Harmsel 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