From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 20 12: 9:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C12C37B7EB for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 12:09:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from slave (doug@slave [10.0.0.1]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA83258; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 12:08:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 12:08:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton X-Sender: doug@dt051n0b.san.rr.com To: Arcady Genkin Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make.conf moved in 4.0? In-Reply-To: <8766tcery1.fsf@tea.thpoon.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 20 Apr 2000, Arcady Genkin wrote: > What's the deal with make.conf in 4.0-S? I see that there is now > make.conf in /etc/defaults. Is the philosophy the same as with > rc.conf? Keep /etc/defaults/make.conf untouched and put overrides into > /etc/make.conf? yes, that is precisely correct. > Or can I "rm /etc/make.conf" now? If you notice, at this time there isn't anything in /etc/defaults/make.conf that is uncommented. So if you want to specify a setting, do it in /etc/make.conf. Doug -- Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. -- W. Somerset Maugham To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message