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Subject: Re: names of supfiles in /usr/share/examples/cvsup
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Rob said:
>
> Hi,
>
> For 5.3 in /usr/share/examples/cvsup, there's:
>
>   stable-supfile   : for FreeBSD-stable
>   standard-supfile : for FreeBSD-current
>
> I find this naming rather confusing. Why "stable" refers to STABLE, but
> "standard" refers to CURRENT ?
>
> This causes unnecessary confusion. Why not the following name convention:
>
>   release-supfile  : for FreeBSD-RELEASE
>   stable-supfile   : for FreeBSD-STABLE
>   current-supfile  : for FreeBSD-CURRENT
>
> as default supplied files in /usr/share/examples/cvsup ?

I agree with you. It has been weird like this ever since 5.x. In the 4.x
days they were named with some common sense.