On Thursday 24 August 2006 08:29, Jeremy Katz wrote:
AFAICT, they're not _really_ config files. A config file is
something
that a person might be expected to change. Instead, these are more like
data files which tell mono how to do it's native dll importing by
mapping a generic name (say libc) to an actual shared library name that
exists on the system (libc.so.6)
Also, it's hardly littered across the filesystem -- they end up
under /usr/lib/mono/gac/<package>/<version> which seems sane as well
Think of it more like the pkgconfig "config" files (which are just data)
as opposed to config files in the httpd.conf sense
I suppose that makes it more reasonable. Do we have this type of information
anywhere in the wiki? These design type things written up and explained
might help to curb kneejerk reactions like the one I just had.
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Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora