From owner-cvs-all Sat Aug 29 12:45:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA29661 for cvs-all-outgoing; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 12:45:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all) Received: from dt053nb4.san.rr.com (dt053nb4.san.rr.com [204.210.34.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA29653 for ; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 12:44:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Received: from dal.net (Studded@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dt053nb4.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA07648; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 12:43:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Message-ID: <35E859F0.8EE54A90@dal.net> Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 12:43:44 -0700 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE-0827 i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Smith CC: committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make.conf References: <199808281827.SAA02369@dingo.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Mike Smith wrote: > > > had no proble removing the -c portion of the ping commit. I have no > > problem discussing the make.conf localization issue that I would like > > to add to-current... an issue, I might add that, that isn't something > > I thought up in 10 seconds and decided to commit. We've been working > > with make.conf for well over 2 years and the relatively innocuous feature > > request and commit came out of those 2 years in working with it. > > Just out of curiosity, given that /etc/make.conf is an entirely "local" > (ie. site-specific) file, if you want to localise such that all your > systems read an override file, what's to stop you adding the include > to your 'site-standard' /etc/make.conf, rather than making it part of system > policy at all? Mike is saying in this and his other letters what I was trying to say before, but doing a better job. :) Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** When you don't know where you're going, every road will take you there. - Yiddish Proverb