From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Oct 9 21:29:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA5EF14D2D for ; Sat, 9 Oct 1999 21:29:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id GAA14164 for ; Sun, 10 Oct 1999 06:29:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id GAA56368 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Sun, 10 Oct 1999 06:29:40 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 077CF14D28; Sat, 9 Oct 1999 21:28:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA27338; Sat, 9 Oct 1999 22:28:57 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id WAA79115; Sat, 9 Oct 1999 22:28:58 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199910100428.WAA79115@harmony.village.org> To: Nik Clayton Subject: Re: /etc/make.conf abuse Cc: Chuck Robey , Eivind Eklund , "Daniel C. Sobral" , Bruce Evans , committers@freebsd.org, arch@freebsd.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 09 Oct 1999 17:54:03 BST." <19991009175403.A54620@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: <19991009175403.A54620@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <19991008192943.S71340@bitbox.follo.net> Date: Sat, 09 Oct 1999 22:28:58 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <19991009175403.A54620@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> Nik Clayton writes: : Perhaps /usr/local/etc/make.conf would be better? Or at least a variable : (which can be defined in /etc/make.conf) which points to the file, so that : the admin can easily set local policy. How is that different from /etc/make.conf? No, an in tree method is needed, even if it isn't the only one? Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message