Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 12:43:44 -0700 From: Studded <Studded@dal.net> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make.conf Message-ID: <35E859F0.8EE54A90@dal.net> References: <199808281827.SAA02369@dingo.cdrom.com>
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Mike Smith wrote:
>
> > had no proble removing the -c portion of the ping commit. I have no
> > problem discussing the make.conf localization issue that I would like
> > to add to-current... an issue, I might add that, that isn't something
> > I thought up in 10 seconds and decided to commit. We've been working
> > with make.conf for well over 2 years and the relatively innocuous feature
> > request and commit came out of those 2 years in working with it.
>
> Just out of curiosity, given that /etc/make.conf is an entirely "local"
> (ie. site-specific) file, if you want to localise such that all your
> systems read an override file, what's to stop you adding the include
> to your 'site-standard' /etc/make.conf, rather than making it part of system
> policy at all?
Mike is saying in this and his other letters what I was trying to say
before, but doing a better job. :)
Doug
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