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Date:	Fri, 27 Sep 2002 09:15:30 -0400
From:	Charles Krug <charles AT pentek DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: [Proposal] Moving user mount information to HKLM
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On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 09:38:21PM -0700, Doru Carastan wrote:
> How about breaking free from using the windoze registry.  There is
> absolutely no special need to use it IMO.

I'll second that.  Relying on a single monolithic binary file for system
critical information is an extraordinarily bad idea.

A single ill-behaved program can render the system unbootable.  AFAIK,
the only thing that MUST be in there is the uninstall information.


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Charles Krug, Jr.
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