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Subject: Re: Commit logs for 2014/04/11
From: David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org>
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On 20 Apr 2014, at 17:05, Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org> wrote:

> Wait, hold on... if the purpose of @sample is to automatically create =
real.conf files and delete them when appropriate, without end-user =
intervention, then end-users should never be interacting with .sample =
files in the first place.

The user may still want to refer to the .sample file so that they can =
see what the defaults are, whether anything has changed, and so on.

> The goal shouldn't be properly-named .sample files, it should be never =
clobbering conf files and ensuring that end-users never have to copy =
sample files themselves. @sample should strive to always be MORE =
permissive, not LESS!

Integrating something like etcupdate that did a three-way merge with pkg =
would indeed be very nice...

David