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From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
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	John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, obrien@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf DEFAULTS GENERIC
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John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> Scott Long wrote this message on Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 06:52 -0700:
> 
>>>I'm also curious why we don't explicitly 'include'
>>>DEFAULTS in GENERIC vs. the new automagic include feature.
>>
>>Because if it was specifically mentioned in the GENERIC config file then
>>it would be deleted by people who don't understand what it does or why
>>it's important, and it would be missed by people writing config files
>>from scratch or migrating from previous versions of FreeBSD.
> 
> 
> I'm sorry, I don't buy this...  The reason:
> device		npx
> 
> If you don't get it, think about it.
> 

Guess I'm too dumb to get it.

Scott