From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 31 22:27:59 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9EDB16A4DE; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:27:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gad@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtp6.server.rpi.edu (smtp6.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46E3A43D7C; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:27:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gad@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp6.server.rpi.edu (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k7VMRu1j015858; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 18:27:57 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200608311721.14081.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <200608290920.k7T9KmV9067843@repoman.freebsd.org> <200608310848.30549.jhb@freebsd.org> <200608311721.14081.jhb@freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 18:27:55 -0400 To: John Baldwin From: Garance A Drosehn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-CanItPRO-Stream: default X-RPI-SA-Score: undef - spam-scanning disabled X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: "Chatty" config files in /etc X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:27:59 -0000 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