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From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To: Steve Price <steve@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: ports.conf
Cc: Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>, arch@FreeBSD.org,
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On 30-Aug-01 Steve Price wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 02:28:41PM -0700, John Baldwin wrote:
>> 
>> Also, ports/Mk/ports.conf can easily just be a default file with everything
>> commented out that doesn't even get included.  Rather, if a user wants to
>> customize, they create a /etc/ports.conf with teh appropriate knobs set, and
>> bsd.port.mk just includes /etc/ports.conf.  The reason for putting the
>> default
>> ports.conf in ports/Mk (or ports/defaults?) instead of /usr/share/examples
>> or
>> some such is the same reason the ports makefiles are in ports/Mk and not
>> /usr/share/mk: it needs to be in sync with the ports tree.
> 
> Like /etc/defaults/make.conf is always in sync with 'make world'?

In theory it is if you mergemaster or do something else to update /etc with
each world, so yes.

> -steve

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