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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: 'sudoers' vs. 'hosts-file'
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2015 23:48:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87616q6jxl.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h9qaihi1.fsf@gmail.com> (Alex Kost's message of "Sun, 14 Jun 2015 15:47:34 +0300")

Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> skribis:

> Since there is no real difference between 'sudoers' and 'hosts-file'
> fields (of operating-system declaration), what about renaming one of
> them?

Makes sense.

> So it could be either:
>
>   'sudoers-file' and 'hosts-file'
>
> or
>
>   'sudoers' and 'hosts'
>
> (I prefer the latter variant)

I prefer the former because the value is really a file, and not, say, a
list of user names or a list of host names.

WDYT?
Would you like to send a patch?

Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-14 21:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-14 12:47 'sudoers' vs. 'hosts-file' Alex Kost
2015-06-14 21:48 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2015-06-15 12:18   ` Alex Kost
2015-06-15 20:10     ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-06-14 22:52 ` Daniel Pimentel
2015-06-15 12:17   ` Alex Kost
2015-06-15 15:21     ` Daniel Pimentel

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