From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Sep 1 14:37:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from gw.nectar.com (gw.nectar.com [208.42.49.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADFB937B422 for ; Fri, 1 Sep 2000 14:37:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hamlet.nectar.com (hamlet.nectar.com [10.0.1.102]) by gw.nectar.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D9101925F for ; Fri, 1 Sep 2000 16:37:29 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from nectar@localhost) by hamlet.nectar.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA44814 for arch@freebsd.org; Fri, 1 Sep 2000 16:37:28 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from nectar@spawn.nectar.com) Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 16:37:28 -0500 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" To: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request for review: nsswitch Message-ID: <20000901163728.C19985@hamlet.nectar.com> References: <20000830071347.A1167@hamlet.nectar.com> <20000830132053.A15387@hamlet.nectar.com> <39AE970A.30208A56@newsguy.com> <20000831130504.A26641@hamlet.nectar.com> <200009010047.RAA43862@vashon.polstra.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200009010047.RAA43862@vashon.polstra.com>; from jdp@polstra.com on Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 05:47:13PM -0700 X-Url: http://www.nectar.com/ Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 05:47:13PM -0700, John Polstra wrote: > I think the ultimate goal should be > that the admin can customize his /etc directory without the need to do > _any_ merging. This goal is satisfied without putting a file in /etc/defaults. The defaults are dictated by the traditional behavior -- there will never be merging to do on the part of the admin. Cheers, -- Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message