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To: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 18 Mar 2004 16:06:23 PST."
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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 10:53:05 -0800
From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
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Subject: Re: src/etc/Makefile rev 1.326 
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> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 16:06:23 -0800 (PST)
> From: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org
> 
> On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Doug White wrote:
> 
> > I've received a report that this rev of src/etc/Makefile is causing
> > device.hints to get spammed unconditionally by mergemaster.
> 
> From day one, mergemaster has never, and as long as I have anything to
> say about it, will never, install a new version of a file without the
> user explicitly saying, "Yes, do that."

I absolutely agree. The defaults in any script like this should always be
on the non-destructive side. 

Of course, the default response to finding something in /etc/rc.d that
is not in /var/tmp/temproot/etc/rc.d is to delete it. I find this
extremely annoying!
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634