Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Dansguardian

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

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On Thu, June 8, 2006 15:24, Bruce Smith wrote:
>> I agree that we have to do something about the size of /etc. It eats up
>> a lot of RAM and also makes it harder to fit the config on a floppy. But
>> whatever you do, keep it simple for the user. We can't make them jump
>> through hoops.
>
> How about my idea of creating a new 'setup' menu, with selections
> to unpack each individual package's etc files?
>
> We should also limit it to fairly advanced (requires manual
> configuration), or obscure packages, so it won't effect our less-technical
> users.

Actually I would prefer a combination of your and Friedl's suggestions.
If we add a function which unpacks the config, we can add this to the init
scripts to avoid problems when a program gets started.
Additionally it make it really easy then, to just call the same function
from the setup program.

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Regards
  Heiko Zuerker
  http://www.devil-linux.org

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