Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 17:38:10 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: committers@freebsd.org, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc/make.conf abuse Message-ID: <19991008173810.E76996@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> In-Reply-To: <37FDFAE2.3A7E312B@newsguy.com>; from Daniel C. Sobral on Fri, Oct 08, 1999 at 11:08:34PM %2B0900 References: <199906171027.UAA03438@godzilla.zeta.org.au> <37FDFAE2.3A7E312B@newsguy.com>
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On Fri, Oct 08, 1999 at 11:08:34PM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > [From my cvs-all archives:] > > Bruce Evans wrote: > > > > Right. /etc/make.conf is for configuring make(1), not for configuring > > /usr/src. It is already abused too much for the latter. > > Can we consider stopping this abuse? It doesn't look like rocket > science to read another file for the specific purpose of configuring > /usr/src, by inserting include lines in the appropriate files at > /usr/share/mk. Perhaps I'm missing something? > Examples :-) > And, assuming wide opposition does not arise (though this DOES look > like a bike shed), would such a file be better located at /usr/src > or /etc? > /etc seems more appropriate, since it is isolated from CVS, while /usr/src is not. -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.247.647 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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