From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Mar 10 17:44:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E5E537B719 for ; Sat, 10 Mar 2001 17:44:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f2B1iXI23234 for ; Sat, 10 Mar 2001 18:44:33 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Message-Id: <200103110144.f2B1iXI23234@harmony.village.org> To: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Breaking up make.conf In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 10 Mar 2001 16:59:54 PST." <20010310165954.A36413@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20010310165954.A36413@dragon.nuxi.com> <200103090241.SAA27525@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> <200103090349.f293nGs04577@billy-club.village.org> Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 18:44:33 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20010310165954.A36413@dragon.nuxi.com> "David O'Brien" writes: : On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 08:49:16PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: : > +__d := ${.CURDIR} : > +.for __i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 : > +.if exists(${__d}/etc/defaults/make.conf) : > +.include "${__d}/etc/defaults/make.conf" : : I must say, if this is going to live in src/, it belongs in src/, not : hidden in src/etc/. The reason that I put it in src/etc/defaults was two fold. First, so people could have a global one, and second they could have a tree one that overrode that. Having it be in bare src/ opens it up for false positives too easily, imho. The etc/default acts as a key to help reduce false positives. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message