Re: Can somebody explain the benefits of .d directories

2017-11-27 Thread Michael Milliman
On 11/27/2017 04:31 PM, Nicolas George wrote: Hans-Peter (2017-11-27): I have an honest question which is dead-simple: Why do we have ".d" directories To allow packages to provide configuration snippets. Packages work at the file level, they provide sets of files. When a package needs to prov

Re: Can somebody explain the benefits of .d directories

2017-11-27 Thread Ben Finney
Hans-Peter writes: > I have an honest question which is dead-simple: Why do we have ".d" > directories, such as "sources.d" or "grub.d", note that with grub, the > defaults are in another directory tree - this is simply beyond insane. Your question there seems less than an honest enquiry – askin

Re: Can somebody explain the benefits of .d directories

2017-11-27 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 05:09:49PM -0500, Hans-Peter wrote: >I have an honest question which is dead-simple: Why do we have ".d" >directories, such as "sources.d" or "grub.d", note that with grub, the >defaults are in another directory tree - this is simply beyond insane. >(Sorry to

Re: Can somebody explain the benefits of .d directories

2017-11-27 Thread Nicolas George
Hans-Peter (2017-11-27): > I have an honest question which is dead-simple: Why do we have ".d" > directories To allow packages to provide configuration snippets. Packages work at the file level, they provide sets of files. When a package needs to provide a configuration snippet, for example when

Can somebody explain the benefits of .d directories

2017-11-27 Thread Hans-Peter
Hi everyone, I am a tech writer, as part of my job I also have to maintain a number of servers, various UNIX systems. Yes, I am a dev as well I have used Debian since 2001 and I do not want to be understood as some UNIX nerd or fanatic. I have an honest question which is dead-simple: W