| Manoj Srivastava 2004-08-30, 2:50 am |
| On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 00:04:17 +0100, Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk> said:
> There's no clearly defined way of expressing who enacts policy over
> /etc/network/interfaces at present. Until that's fixed, expecting
> other applications to deal with it is utterly insane.
I don't give a shit if there is a defined policy for the
interfaces file. There is a well defined policy that says you do not
lose user defined data in configuration files -- and that files under
/etc are configuration files.
Any thing that loses user data is gravely buggy.
manoj
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