From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 22 12:53:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C382837B698 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 12:53:39 -0800 (PST) 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 f0MKrQ912161; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 13:53:27 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Message-Id: <200101222053.f0MKrQ912161@harmony.village.org> To: "Ras-Sol" Subject: Re: PPPoE Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" , "Felix-Antoine Paradis" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 22 Jan 2001 12:53:50 PST." <054e01c084b5$6c4ee270$800a280a@speedera.com> References: <054e01c084b5$6c4ee270$800a280a@speedera.com> <3A6C48E3.493F5161@newsguy.com> Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 13:53:26 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <054e01c084b5$6c4ee270$800a280a@speedera.com> "Ras-Sol" writes: : And btw, does anyone else completely DETEST the "/etc/rc.conf" - : "/etc/defaults/rc.conf"? I don't. : Why can't we just have ONE file, instead of one file, plus an override file? Because we had one file in the past. It was a nightmare to support. Even with mergemaster there were all kinds of headaches that it caused and support nightmares for the folks who answer questions in the -stable and -current mailing lists. A defaults file gives us the ability to tweak the defaults over time and to add new defaults which you don't get in the one file case. This will likely never change back to one file. Get used to it. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message