[SM-Discuss] Testing of devel ISO 20080322

David Kowis dkowis at shlrm.org
Tue Apr 15 18:34:40 EDT 2008


Eric Sandall wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 April 2008 01:38:35 Karsten Behrmann wrote:
> <snip>
>> Hmm, point.
>> Maybe an /etc/examples/ or /usr/share/doc/examples/ (bleh) populated
>> by us?
>> The reason I don't like crunching all the examples into one file is
>> that it's a long read.
>>
>> It doesn't matter as much with files like fstab, in which order is pretty
>> much irrelevant and you can just go
>> # ===== examples below this line, skip on first read =====
>>
>> On the other hand, when you're a new user editing his lilo.conf, I'd
>> certainly not want to have to delete a bunch of lines to get it to work
>> (neccessary with the current lilo.conf.example), and I'd rather not have
>> to read through hundreds of lines documenting obscure features until I
>> find the line where I put that "append=noapic" that makes my box boot.
>>
>> So in summary, I think we serve new (or hasty) users better if our default
>> files are a small and essential, and all the "reference" stuff is put
>> somewhere where you don't need to scroll through just to get your system
>> set up.
>>
>> Just My Humble Opinion, of course.
>>
>> So Far,
>>   Karsten
> 
> To me, it's the other way. As a new user (to an OS or to a specific 
> application) I prefer well-documented configuration files. I can always remove 
> the comments later.

I'm of the same preference. I don't want to have to switch between VCs 
when I can just type what I see a bit further down, or use VI's copy 
paste ability ;)

> 
> For the specific lilo.conf example, just have all the examples commented out by 
> default. ;)
Yep

> 
> Either way, as long as all of the examples are available somewhere (I prefer 
> *in* the actual config file ;)), and people know/are told where to find them, 
> I'll be happy.

I also prefer in the config file to further away.

less work >  more work

at least for me, not for you :P

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