From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Apr 19 23: 9:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from verdi.nethelp.no (verdi.nethelp.no [158.36.41.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0893637B41F for ; Fri, 19 Apr 2002 23:09:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 5817 invoked by uid 1001); 20 Apr 2002 06:09:30 +0000 (GMT) To: oberman@es.net, DougB@FreeBSD.org Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: *** HEAD'S UP *** From: sthaug@nethelp.no In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 19 Apr 2002 15:58:55 -0700" References: <20020419225855.E7E575D05@ptavv.es.net> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.05+ on Emacs 19.34.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 08:09:29 +0200 Message-ID: <5815.1019282969@verdi.nethelp.no> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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