Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 18:27:55 -0400 From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@FreeBSD.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: "Chatty" config files in /etc Message-ID: <p06230922c11d0afb4107@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <200608311721.14081.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <200608290920.k7T9KmV9067843@repoman.freebsd.org> <200608310848.30549.jhb@freebsd.org> <p0623091fc11cee9097e7@[128.113.24.47]> <200608311721.14081.jhb@freebsd.org>
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At 5:21 PM -0400 8/31/06, John Baldwin wrote: >On Thursday 31 August 2006 16:09, Garance A Drosehn wrote: > > At 8:48 AM -0400 8/31/06, John Baldwin wrote: > > > >> >This is already spelled /usr/share/examples/etc in FreeBSD. >> >> Actually, as it stands right now that is not quite the same >> thing. Right now /usr/share/examples/etc holds *exact copies* >> of the files we install in /etc, for the reasons as described >> in /usr/share/examples/etc/README.examples : > >I was thinking of /usr/share/examples/ppp (I thought it had >been under /usr/share/examples/etc/ppp). Having >/usr/share/examples/etc in its current form really isn't all >that useful as for one thing it has rotted a bunch. Hmm. I am not sure that it has rotted all that much. The list of files might not be complete, but I've done a 'diff' between the files in there and files under /etc, and they all seem to be exactly the same. (done on 6.x-stable under PPC, not i386) >I think instead that we should repurpose it for expanded >versions of files. I have no objection to this. I do think it is kinda nice to have it the way it is, but I have no objection if others feel it should be changed. I did find it a little confusing to have both /usr/share/examples/pf and /usr/share/examples/etc/pf.conf . >The current format of /etc/printcap should be an example >file for example (it fits with /usr/share/examples/ppp style) >and I think we shouldn't even have an /etc/printcap installed >by default. As the maintainer of lpr, I'd say that I want some /etc/printcap to exist. I just want it to be a very short file, with almost no comments. Almost all of the comments in the current version should be moved to a separate "examples" file. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = drosehn@rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@FreeBSD.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY; USA
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