From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Apr 27 13:36:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.unixathome.org (ns1.unixathome.org [203.79.82.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87B2237B422 for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 13:36:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from xeon (xeon.int.nz.freebsd.org [192.168.0.18]) by ns1.unixathome.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f3RKaKm15443; Sat, 28 Apr 2001 08:36:20 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 08:36:20 +1200 (NZST) From: Dan Langille X-X-Sender: To: Juha Saarinen Cc: Subject: RE: secure-supfile ? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, Juha Saarinen wrote: > :: 3. Should defaults need to be changed, create or edit the /etc file of > :: the same name to contain just the items requiring non-default > :: behavior. > > It might be a little confusing to newbies that there is no empty > /etc/make.conf file, which is probably why they go into defaults instead. > > Maybe it'd be a good idea to put in an empty file, which says something > like: > > # Please check /etc/defaults/make.conf for system-wide defaults, but don't > edit that file. > # Add all override settings to this file instead. A fine idea. It would both educate and help to eliminate the "why don't I have an /etc/make.conf file" questions. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message