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diff --git a/doc/configuration.txt b/doc/configuration.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 2275c6e4281..00000000000 --- a/doc/configuration.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,25 +0,0 @@ -Configuration in NixOS - -Configuration in NixOS is not very straightforward. On other Linux -distribution site-specific information (password files, host files, and -so on) are stored with information that is rather generic for a lot of -operating systems. To be able to handle these in a gentle way I have decided -to seperate these two a bit more in NixOS. - -In particular, in the /etc directory there is a Nix profile called "configs". -In this profile the generic configuration is kept. In time this can grow -to keep configuration which is site specific, but which can easily be kept -in the store, such as "profile" (default system wide Bourne shell profile) - -Right now two packages should be in this profile: - -* etcServices : installs a file called "services" (/etc/services should -point to this) -* etcProtocols : installs a file called "protocols" (/etc/protocols should -point to this) - -During install time these packages should be installed and the right symlinks -should be made. - -When NIX-40 is closed, we might consider making /etc itself a profile and -keep even more configuration information inside the Nix store. |