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Subject: Re: Announcing 2.0.5-950622-SNAP 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 24 Jun 1995 15:35:44 MDT."
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Date: Sat, 24 Jun 1995 22:47:44 +0100
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freebsd.org>
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> So *totally* divorce the configuration information from the *use* of the
> configuration.

Well, that's sort of what /etc/sysconfig is eventually supposed to
become.  Then you'd never overwrite the user's sysconfig file and
would, at most, patch it to fold in whatever knobs had been added..

					Jordan