[Discuss] Slackware

Tom Metro tmetro-blu at vl.com
Wed Feb 29 21:19:06 EST 2012


Shankar Viswanathan wrote:
> Are there any other distros that have a Slackware-like configuration
> system (i.e. simple rc files) but with better package management?

What's different about the "simple rc files" approach that you like
compared to how configuration is handled in Debian?

Debian may not use "simple rc files", but it is fully configurable using
text files (largely by tweaking parameters in /etc/defaults).

 -Tom

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