Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 14:27:29 +0400 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> To: Garance A Drosehn <gad@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: "Chatty" config files in /etc Message-ID: <20060901102729.GC83135@rambler-co.ru> In-Reply-To: <p06230922c11d0afb4107@[128.113.24.47]> References: <200608290920.k7T9KmV9067843@repoman.freebsd.org> <200608310848.30549.jhb@freebsd.org> <p0623091fc11cee9097e7@[128.113.24.47]> <200608311721.14081.jhb@freebsd.org> <p06230922c11d0afb4107@[128.113.24.47]>
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--hOcCNbCCxyk/YU74 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 06:27:55PM -0400, Garance A Drosehn wrote: [...] > >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. >=20 > 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) >=20 I think John meant something different (not sure what), because they cannot rot in the sense of being different from files in /etc since they are installed from the same sources (and the same src/etc/Makefile). > >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. >=20 > 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. >=20 Go for it, make the precedent! :-) Cheers, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer --hOcCNbCCxyk/YU74 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFE+AsRqRfpzJluFF4RAi6TAJ9k0a6n8ASFSf7YLZ97UnwuyQoDFACgjceO gajMmwHFe7jk8PPuWwBN5Gc= =A33k -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --hOcCNbCCxyk/YU74--
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