Am 06.03.2013 22:42, schrieb Steve Litt:
On Wed, 06 Mar 2013 08:27:51 +1000 Noel Butler noel.butler@ausics.net wrote:
On Tue, 2013-03-05 at 08:28 -0800, Professa Dementia wrote:
On 3/5/2013 7:34 AM, Simon Brereton wrote:
What's the recommended approach then? Pack it all into dovecot.conf as it was before, or use the split config files under conf.d/ - is this even a choice?
Split configs are nicer and easier to work with and I am all for nicer and easier.
Dem
WTF? Everything in one file is much nicer and easier, and you don't have to guess what option is in what file
Here's a question for both of you:
- Is there any reason someone could not, after the fact, cut parts of the main file and put that cut into conf.d?
- Is there any reason someone could not, after the fact, cut parts out of the conf.d files and paste them into the main files, perhaps adding a comment as to where they were originally?
If both of those are possible, although we could still argue which should be the default (and I strongly believe in one file), at least each of us can have our own way with a half hour of work.
conf.d files are easier if the config is really large and for make it possible to add and remove pieces by software managment tools
a monolithic config file is way better as long it is not too big at all because depending on your screen you can view most of the config at once and backup/restore is also much easier in many cases