From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jul 9 19:28:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dragonstar.dhs.org (dsl-028-a.resnet.purdue.edu [128.211.161.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA37737C2E5 for ; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 19:28:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonsmith@dragonstar.dhs.org) Received: from localhost (jonsmith@localhost) by dragonstar.dhs.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA95087 for ; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 21:28:14 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jonsmith@dragonstar.dhs.org) Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 21:28:14 -0500 (EST) From: Jonathan Smith To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Previous Message on /etc/defaults 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 I, personally, have no need of /etc/defaults and typically disable it, anyway. Since the whole thing is environment variables, why not make /etc/rc.conf and /etc/make.conf _include_ the ones in /etc/defaults (first thing in the file) (if they exist, obviously)? At which point, those of us who don't use the features [of the defaults] can simply copy the onese in the defaults directory over the ones in /etc (thus putting the entire file in completely AND removing the inclusion of /etc/defualts files... This, also, enforces the idea that defaults are defaults and the ones in the etc directory are the final authority. Just an idea :) -- Close your eyes. Now forget what you see. What do you feel? -- My heart. -- Come here. -- Your heart. -- See? We're exactly the same. Jon Smith -- Senior Math Major @ Purdue To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message