From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Aug 31 11: 5:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from gw.nectar.com (gw.nectar.com [208.42.49.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EE5D37B424 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 11:05:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hamlet.nectar.com (hamlet.nectar.com [10.0.1.102]) by gw.nectar.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBE981925F; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 13:05:04 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from nectar@localhost) by hamlet.nectar.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA26664; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 13:05:04 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from nectar@spawn.nectar.com) Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 13:05:04 -0500 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Request for review: nsswitch Message-ID: <20000831130504.A26641@hamlet.nectar.com> Mail-Followup-To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" , "Daniel C. Sobral" , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20000830071347.A1167@hamlet.nectar.com> <39AD222B.CE9A26B5@newsguy.com> <20000830132053.A15387@hamlet.nectar.com> <39AE970A.30208A56@newsguy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <39AE970A.30208A56@newsguy.com>; from dcs@newsguy.com on Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 02:34:02AM +0900 X-Url: http://www.nectar.com/ Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 02:34:02AM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > The reason is the following: when upgrading, merging changes to defaults > against user modifications is not only very hard, but we have no support > for it at all with our tools. The defaults for nsswitch.conf will not change, ever. They have been chosen to emulate the traditional behavior. > Anyway, if there is not default file being installed, then, indeed, the > /etc/defaults thingy is not needed at all. Right, much like /etc/resolv.conf. -- Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message