Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 08:09:29 +0200 From: sthaug@nethelp.no To: oberman@es.net, DougB@FreeBSD.org Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: *** HEAD'S UP *** Message-ID: <5815.1019282969@verdi.nethelp.no> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 19 Apr 2002 15:58:55 -0700" References: <20020419225855.E7E575D05@ptavv.es.net>
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> I really hate to see the suggestion that people copy files from > /etc/defaults to /etc. This really breaks the paradigm of having only > changes in defaults in /etc so that defaults can be changed with a > normal system update. While the new mergemaster option helps with > this, I would really rather not see rc.conf (and other files) become > large and not trivial to scan over. Agreed. I saw the claim that this is *not* the paradigm - but it's certainly the way *I* understood it after we got /etc/defaults/rc.conf and /etc/rc.conf changed from including everything to only being a few lines (usually generated by sysinstall). I *want* my rc.conf files nice and short and readable. More than once I have gone through rc.conf files and explicitly deleted lines because they were already in /etc/defaults/rc.conf. In short, I strongly disagree with "explicitly include your choices for anything that you care about, whether they are the defaults or not". > A suggestion to scan through /etc/defaults/rc.conf is not > unreasonable. Agreed. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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