Re: tlug: Re: limits of acceptability

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Chris Sekiya wrote:

> On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> 
> > He edits files by writing them to punch cards (barely acceptable) and
> > then chewing on them (it's a shame they discontinued the cherry
> > flavor, cards would be much more acceptable).
> 
> I never liked cherry-flavor.  Chocolate was much much better.
> 
> > What they _should_ be doing (IMHO, and incidentally that of Debian),
> > is to decide what they can handle and then let the user decide when to 
> > use the config tools and when to do bloody surgery on the rc file.
> 
> ... and when they create a config file, it should be human-readable.
> Extra points for comments in the config file.
> 
> TL xconfigurator produces an X configuration file that is the bare-assed
> minimum to get X running.  Human-readable, if one is familiar with
> XF86Config files, but not especially suited to after-the-fact editing.
> 
> In contrast, xf86config produces an X configuration file that is
> _extremely_ self-documented.  Want to know what ChordMiddle does?  Even if
> it wasn't chosen during the config process, the description is in the
> config file.  Makes it much easier to edit, as well as explain to the
> person standing behind you what is being changed and why.

hm, I thought that all the comments were annoying so I deliberately took
them out.  It's easier (for me) to read the 'clean' config file output
produced by turboxcfg.  You think this was a mistake?  I could easily have
turboxcfg add some comments if you think it would help matters any.

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
Head of TurboLinux Development/Systems Administrator
Pacific HiTech, Inc (USA) / Pacific HiTech, KK (Japan)


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