Date: 13 Dec 1998 13:32:57 +0100 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> Cc: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>, jb@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc Makefile Message-ID: <xzp4sr043ye.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Mark Murray's message of "Sun, 13 Dec 1998 10:25:32 %2B0200" References: <199812122318.KAA27548@cimlogic.com.au> <199812130825.KAA17866@greenpeace.grondar.za>
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Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> writes: > John Birrell wrote: > > > What *would* be useful is a patch that finds missing files and warns > > > about them. > > But that won't meet the requirements of those who say that missing files > > is a normal case. Committing such a change will generate just as many > > emails from people who don't like _that_. > How about installing them as <file>.sample as a hint? Better, but not sufficient; it assumes that the user checks 'ls /etc/*sample' after make world. For such a feature to have any effect, you have to somehow warn the user about missing files, e.g. by mailing a list to root. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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