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Subject: Re: NO_ knobs in /etc/make.conf
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Vivek Khera wrote:

> I guess I wasn't clear about my confusion. What was broken about putting 
> all this in make.conf that necessitated a src.conf file too?

One could argue that they didn't need to be moved at all. One of the 
rationales at the time was that we didn't want the knobs for the base to 
affect the ports.

Doug

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