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On Sat, 31 May 1997, Terry Lambert wrote:

> The config needs to be seperated into "machine" and "usage"
> portions, IMO.  Maybe adding the ability to use #include (or
> equivalent) is really the thing to do, instead.

If it's of any interest, NetBSD did add an `include' facility to
config. sys/arch/i386/conf/GENERIC, for example, has

    include "arch/i386/conf/std.i386"

at the top, which includes a bunch of standard options that nobody
can live without (EXEC_AOUT, for example).

cjs

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