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Jaye Mathisen wrote:
> 
> that can have localized settings for running fetch with -p, and all that
> kind of stuff, like make.conf?
> 
> I get tired of having to reedit the .mk file after each time I do a make
> world on any box that has firewall software running.

me too 
I haven't looked to see if /etc/make.conf migh tbe useful for this..
anyhow why is -p not the default?

> 
> Or is there someplace for this already?