From owner-cvs-all Thu Aug 27 06:20:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA10779 for cvs-all-outgoing; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 06:20:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all) Received: from roma.coe.ufrj.br (roma.coe.ufrj.br [146.164.53.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA10761; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 06:20:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonny@jonny.eng.br) Received: (from jonny@localhost) by roma.coe.ufrj.br (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA25306; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 10:16:38 -0300 (EST) (envelope-from jonny) From: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis Message-Id: <199808271316.KAA25306@roma.coe.ufrj.br> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc make.conf In-Reply-To: <199808270459.VAA10971@apollo.backplane.com> from Matthew Dillon at "Aug 26, 98 09:59:03 pm" To: dillon@backplane.com (Matthew Dillon) Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 10:16:38 -0300 (EST) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, dima@best.net, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, dillon@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk #define quoting(Matthew Dillon) // :>> > rc.conf.local capability. Eases large-site administration. // :>> // :>> Bogus. make.conf is already entirely local. It is the local extension // :>> of . // :> // :>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. What about a man page ??? I've been updating my make.conf since I started using FreeBSD and see it as a "feature" of progress. :) Using make.conf.local would not add any real facility, IMO. I agree with those who think make.conf is ALREADY local. Jonny -- Joao Carlos Mendes Luis M.Sc. Student jonny@jonny.eng.br Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro "There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and Unix. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." -- Jeremy S. Anderson