Kenneth Porter wrote:
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The registry is sort of like a filesystem, with a similar hierarchical structure. The hierarchy is reasonably laid out, and one can usually find what one needs in it as rapidly as one can find equivalent settings in the Linux /etc and home dotfile trees. In fact, I'd say that /etc is rather chaotic and organic and could use some of the structure one currently finds in Window's HKLM and HKR hives.
You cannot be serious. The day Linux makes me look for some obscure setting under {079ACDF2-9218-45CC-B735-AF459E25BC67}\00 is the day I give up on computers. Yes I need to tweak Windows sometimes, and have delved the registry on numerous (unwanted) times and to say that a structure like that, where everything is repeated under different parent keys, is NORMAL, then calling /etc chaotic is beyond my comprehension. I had a ghastly nightmare like that when I had to delete all symantec/norton related keys from my registry. Glad it has a find command, but it still took close to an hour searching, then deleting, then searching etc. It looked like a bloody maze in there and I thought I'd never get out. I'm not going to flame you, I firmly believe everyone has their own opinion, but what you said simply scared me.
However, I DO strongly agree that all configuration files should be stored in a single directory. Some are directly under /etc, some under sub directories of that, and sub directories of something else.
I'm on FC1 and without the locate command, I don't think I would have found up2date's sources file without wasting 30 minutes looking.
That is something we both do agree on.
Regards, Ed.
