Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 21:59:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@backplane.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, dima@best.net, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, dillon@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc make.conf Message-ID: <199808270459.VAA10971@apollo.backplane.com>
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:>> > rc.conf.local capability. Eases large-site administration.
:>>
:>> Bogus. make.conf is already entirely local. It is the local extension
:>> of <sys.mk>.
:>
:>It actually depends. If we consider /etc/{daily,weekly,monthly,rc.conf}
:>etc etc etc being local, then what's the point of having their .local
:>extensions?
:
:None :-). Don't consider them as local, since they do a lot by default.
:make.conf OTOH contains only commented out defaults.
:
:Bruce
commented out defaults, but it's still 6 KBytes worth of
critical information that needs to get updated on every
system update. If you don't want a make.conf.local
then the supplied make.conf needs to be an empty file with
some other file containing a list of all the features.
Otherwise we have to update make.conf on every install.
I like the make.conf.local idea better.
-Matt
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