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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@csail.mit.edu>
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<<On Wed, 6 Apr 2016 18:21:34 +0200, Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@gmail.com> said:

> On Tue, 5 Apr 2016 13:42:48 -0400 (EDT)
> Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@MIT.EDU> wrote:

>> On Tue, 5 Apr 2016, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
>> 
>> > Will there be an option not to merge?  I never update /etc when
>> > I do installworld because what I have works for me and I see no
>> > need to make any changes to a working system.  
>> 
>> And you expect your system to continue working after a new system user is
>> added?
>> 

> Yes, because these are mentioned in UPDATING and I add them by hand.

The whole impetus for "pkg for base" is that doing things by hand
doesn't scale when you have more than N=$smallnum machines (or VMs or
containers).  If you're doing this stuff by hand, you can keep on
doing "make installworld" -- that's still going to be supported.

-GAWollman