From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jul 10 19: 3:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dt052n3e.san.rr.com (dt052n3e.san.rr.com [204.210.33.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8343937B56B; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 19:03:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from slave (doug@slave [10.0.0.1]) by dt052n3e.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA84639; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 19:03:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 19:03:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton X-Sender: doug@dt052n3e.san.rr.com To: Jonathan Smith Cc: John Baldwin , "Dan O'Connor" , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Previous Message on /etc/defaults In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Jonathan Smith wrote: > I'm going to drop the discussion. You're busy telling me why your way is > best for me, when I'm saying it's fine, but not for me. Rather than > listening and offering ideas, you're telling me why you are right. That's not what he was saying at all. If I may, it seemed to me that John's point was that the /etc/defaults system works best for the majority of our users, and might even have some advantages for you if you chose to give it a try. Your point is that you want to do what you want to do, come hell or high water. That's fine, the fact that you _can_ do that at all is what makes freebsd non-microsoft-y. Good luck, Doug -- "Live free or die" - State motto of my ancestral homeland, New Hampshire Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message