On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 11:19:12AM +0000, Philip Hazel wrote:
> > However, why have an order at all? Why not have sections that are
> > delimited with some tag or other. Would that break anything?
>
> You are the second person to make such a point (the other person did so
> off the list) within a very short time of my asking, so it must be a
> good idea. :-)
Lemme check "Sarcasm for really smart people" before I answer that one
;>
> There is a reason for having the "main" section first (for some command
> line options, such as -bp, -Mxxx, -bi, Exim doesn't read any further).
> However, there are no constraints on the rest. One possible way of doing
> this would be to abolish the "end" delimiter, and instead have lines
> such as "begin acl", "begin transports" and so on, with no required
> order. How does that sound?
That would indeed be a fine with me. I would still use something like
the setup that you suggested but it will allow everyone else to do
things the way they want it done -- which is a good thing (tm) in my
book.
However, I think that it should all be kept in one file. I would not
want to have a file for routers, one for ACLs, one for rewrites and a
main one that would include them all. Athough it has the potential for a
Lord of the Exim poem...
Three files for the ACLs under the Gnu
Seven files for the routers in their halls of TCP
Nine files for the rewrites, doomed to fail
One for the SysAdmin in his r00t account
In the Land of Unix where the l33t dwell
One file to rule them all, One file to find them
One file to bring them all, and in HUP binds them
In the Land of Unix where the l33t dwell
... I really need to stop lisening to the voices in my head.
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