Re: [Lxde-list] LXDM : read system infos from /etc/sysconfig

[Andrew L. <aj...@de...>]

Christoph Wickert wrote:
>>> IMHO, distro-specific stuff should only belong to patches rather than
>>> be included in upstream code
>> I totally agree.
> 
> And I have to say I disagree. /etc/sysconfig/* is not really distro
> specfic, it is used by many distros: Fedora, Red Hat, (Open)SUSE,
> Mandriva, Foresight, and many more (basically all that use Red Hat's
> initscripts and this is nearly everything but Debian/Ubuntu).

I agree with PCMan's opinion. These should only belong to patches rather
than included in upstream code.

We shouldn't argue here on how many distros use /etc/sysconfig/*. And
there are more than just Linux Distros. We also have users who would use
lxde with OpenSolaris, *BSD... and so on.

Best reagrds,

-Andrew