discrete units

Hal Murray hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Wed Jan 20 22:24:26 UTC 2021


esr at thyrsus.com said:
> OTOH, if you don't split the file you lose some of the simplification you
> might have collected, as both pices have to carry the same parser and
> generate errors when ry're fed a piece of configuration that's not theirs to
> handle. 

If you split the config file, there are some items that get duplicated and 
hence an opportunity for getting out of sync.

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> If you split the file it's a flag day for all users (no small matter when the
> uservase is as conservative and risk-averse as ntpd's)

We should be able to write a script to do the splitting.




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