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From: Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: svn commit: r318441 - in head/etc: . cron.d
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On  3 Jun, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
 
> As far as fixing the builds for optional stuff that is rather
> easily done in the Makefile with some if's to build a list of
> files that can then be catted to conf.foo, using m4 or even
> cpp to pre process conf.foo.src, etc, several very easy ways
> to solve that and leave the system administration interface
> alone.

That doesn't help with packaged base where you can add one of the
optional pieces later.