From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 24 14:56: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.greatbasin.net (mail.greatbasin.net [207.228.35.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEBBC14F57 for ; Fri, 24 Dec 1999 14:56:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@jgl.reno.nv.us) Received: from jgl.reno.nv.us (rno-max0-39.gbis.net [207.228.60.39]) by mail.greatbasin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA09173; Fri, 24 Dec 1999 14:55:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from danco (danco.home [10.0.0.2]) by jgl.reno.nv.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA16509; Fri, 24 Dec 1999 14:55:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@jgl.reno.nv.us) Message-ID: <020f01bf4e62$073f1740$0200000a@danco.home> From: "Dan O'Connor" To: "Jonathon McKitrick" Cc: Subject: Re: mergemaster after upgrade Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 14:55:48 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>> What about the other /etc directories ? Can i delete those >>> entirely? isdn, kerberos, gnats, mail, etc? I don't use anything from >>> them, that i am aware of. >> >>Just leave 'em alone. One day you might need them, and they're not >>hurting you now. :-) >> >>The disadvantage or removing them is that mergemaster will think they're >>new files _every_ time you run it from here on. :-) > >So it would make sense to just allow mergemaster to replace them all with >the current versions, and then leave them alone? Yup. You've got it! And if they haven't changed the next time you do a 'make world', mergemaster won't even ask you about them... Merry Christmas! --Dan ** The thing I like most about Windows 98 is... ** You can download FreeBSD with it! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message