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From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@backplane.com>
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To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc make.conf
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:
:>  Modified files:
:>    etc                  make.conf 
:>  Log:
:>  Reviewed by:  asami@freebsd.org (Satoshi Asami)
:>  
:>      Give make.conf a make.conf.local capability similar to rc.conf's
:>      rc.conf.local capability.  Eases large-site administration.
:
:Bogus.  make.conf is already entirely local.  It is the local extension
:of <sys.mk>.
:
:Bruce

    make.conf contains a template of all (or most) customizeable defines.
    To that end, whenever a freeBSD release is made /etc/make.conf needs to be
    updated from /usr/src/etc so it contains the latest template features.
    Because of that, it is hardly an 'entirely local' file.  Like rc.conf,
    it contains a set of defaults (even if all commented out) and, like
    rc.conf, it's contents may change radically between releases. 

    And, like rc.conf, a localization mechanism (rc.conf.local equivalent)
    is required to allow the sysad to maintain his own truely local version
    of the file without having to re-merge his stuff into the system-provided
    make.conf every time a system update is made.

    If you want make.conf itself to be entirely local, the file should be
    a nearly blank template similar to, say, /usr/src/etc/rc.local, or
    not be in /usr/src/etc at all, similar to rc.conf.local.  It should not
    be a fairly large and complete file full of commented-out featurisms.

						-Matt

    Matthew Dillon  Engineering, HiWay Technologies, Inc. & BEST Internet 
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