Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 16:11:50 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> Cc: FreeBSD-chat <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: /etc/defaults/really_defaults/really_really_defaults Message-ID: <19990412161150.B3679@scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904111221170.5935-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904111221170.5935-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
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Jason C. Wells wrote: > What's the functional difference between the former rc.conf and > defaults/rc.conf? Why not > /etc/defaults/really_defaults/really_really_defaults/rc.conf? (Rhetorical > question) > > If we realllllly shouldn't change settings in defaults/rc.conf then just > roll those variable assignments into /etc/rc which we are also warned not > to play with. (This is where a developer should tell me I don't see the > grand scheme.) It makes it easier to see what the defaults are, imho. If I wanted to find all the other defaults, I'd have to grep all the rc* files, find what context it was used in, etc. Also, if a variable is used more than once, especially in more than one file, changes made by FreeBSD developers to the default setting need only be made once. -- Ben Smithurst ben@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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