From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jul 9 19:48: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mostgraveconcern.com (mostgraveconcern.com [216.82.145.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E45D37B5F2 for ; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 19:48:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@mostgraveconcern.com) Received: from danco (danco.mostgraveconcern.com [10.0.0.2]) by mostgraveconcern.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA09460; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 19:47:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@mostgraveconcern.com) Message-ID: <036c01bfea19$417daae0$0200000a@danco> Reply-To: "Dan O'Connor" From: "Dan O'Connor" To: "Jonathan Smith" , Subject: Re: Previous Message on /etc/defaults Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 19:47:57 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 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 :) My $0.02: I thinks it's a good idea for /etc/defaults/whatever to set the defaults and then load any customizations for /etc/whatever. Personally, I *like* having small /etc/whatever files with just my entries to worry about. And if we call defaults from the /etc copy, you have to first have an /etc version, or else the defaults don't get loaded at all... --Dan -- Dan O'Connor On Matters of Most Grave Concern http://www.mostgraveconcern.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message