Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:21:13 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Garance A Drosehn <gad@freebsd.org> Cc: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>, cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-src@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "Chatty" config files in /etc Message-ID: <200608311721.14081.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <p0623091fc11cee9097e7@[128.113.24.47]> References: <200608290920.k7T9KmV9067843@repoman.freebsd.org> <200608310848.30549.jhb@freebsd.org> <p0623091fc11cee9097e7@[128.113.24.47]>
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On Thursday 31 August 2006 16:09, Garance A Drosehn wrote: > At 8:48 AM -0400 8/31/06, John Baldwin wrote: > >On Thursday 31 August 2006 06:18, Tom Rhodes wrote: > >> On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 14:00:04 +0400 > > > Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > >> > > > > No, /etc/defaults are different beasties -- they are true > >> > default config files -- they are either used if there's no > >> > corresponding version under /etc, or most likely sourced > >> > to provide defaults. To be moved to /etc/defaults, a file > >> > should gain the same property. > >> > >> While this comment is blatently obvious: /etc/examples > > > >This is already spelled /usr/share/examples/etc in FreeBSD. > > Actually, as it stands right now that is not quite the same > thing. Right now /usr/share/examples/etc holds *exact copies* > of the files we install in /etc, for the reasons as described > in /usr/share/examples/etc/README.examples : I was thinking of /usr/share/examples/ppp (I thought it had been under /usr/share/examples/etc/ppp). Having /usr/share/examples/etc in its current form really isn't all that useful as for one thing it has rotted a bunch. I think instead that we should repurpose it for expanded versions of files. The current format of /etc/printcap should be an example file for example (it fits with /usr/share/examples/ppp style) and I think we shouldn't even have an /etc/printcap installed by default. Same with /etc/hosts.allow. -- John Baldwin
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