From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Oct 8 7:45:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 202EF15826 for ; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 07:44:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA11296 for ; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 16:44:12 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id QAA43225 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 16:44:12 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from relay.ucb.crimea.ua (relay.ucb.crimea.ua [212.110.138.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 481271537D; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 07:43:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ru@ucb.crimea.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by relay.ucb.crimea.ua (8.9.3/8.9.3/UCB) id RAA90336; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 17:38:10 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru) Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 17:38:10 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: committers@freebsd.org, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc/make.conf abuse Message-ID: <19991008173810.E76996@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> References: <199906171027.UAA03438@godzilla.zeta.org.au> <37FDFAE2.3A7E312B@newsguy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <37FDFAE2.3A7E312B@newsguy.com>; from Daniel C. Sobral on Fri, Oct 08, 1999 at 11:08:34PM +0900 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Oct 08, 1999 at 11:08:34PM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > [From my cvs-all archives:] > > Bruce Evans wrote: > > > > Right. /etc/make.conf is for configuring make(1), not for configuring > > /usr/src. It is already abused too much for the latter. > > Can we consider stopping this abuse? It doesn't look like rocket > science to read another file for the specific purpose of configuring > /usr/src, by inserting include lines in the appropriate files at > /usr/share/mk. Perhaps I'm missing something? > Examples :-) > And, assuming wide opposition does not arise (though this DOES look > like a bike shed), would such a file be better located at /usr/src > or /etc? > /etc seems more appropriate, since it is isolated from CVS, while /usr/src is not. -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.247.647 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message