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Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 03:11:21 -0800
From: "William R. Somsky" <wrsomsky@halcyon.com>
To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Heads up!  /etc/rc.conf.site is dead.
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On Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 02:21:09PM -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> Rather that listen to people wail over the next few months, it was
> decided instead to go to a slight variation on the previous theme in
> hopes that more people will be happy with the compromise.
> 
> In essence, what used to be everything in /etc/rc.conf has moved to
> /etc/defaults/rc.conf and this file takes care of including
> (optionally) /etc/rc.conf and /etc/rc.conf.local.  This means that you
> can go back to editing /etc/rc.conf again and the expected things will
> happen, though those interested in the full set of tunables will still
> need to look at /etc/defaults/rc.conf (which, like all defaults to
> eventually live in that directory, will be freely upgradable by the
> system).
> 
> Since that made rc.conf.site obsolete, it was taken out of the
> configuration.  Please move it to rc.conf on your system, should you
> be one of those folks who installed from an earlier snapshot and are
> now updating your /etc from -current or -stable sources (not likely to
> be all that many people).  This change will also be in 3.1.
> 
> - Jordan
> 
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Any chance of something similar being done for make.conf?
I've gotten in the habit of only adding stuff at the end,
but it's still a pain copying file chunks back and forth.
(Well, just "forth" I guess, no "back")

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William R. Somsky                                   wrsomsky@halcyon.com
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