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<<On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 19:53:38 +0000, Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org> said:

> One (other kludge) I was considering was automatically invoking
> etcupdate(8) on 'FreeBSD-runtime' installation, which should
> automatically populate /etc on a clean install, as well as keeping /etc
> updated as part of upgrades.

> But, I *really* do not like that idea...

I thought that this was supposed to happen using the existing pkg(8)
"config files" functionaility, which is already supposed to do the
three-way merge...?  I did not realize that those files were not
getting packaged.

-GAWollman