Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 17:09:19 +0100 From: David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org> To: Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org> Cc: svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org, Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org>, Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Commit logs for 2014/04/11 Message-ID: <BEE241FA-E94C-4B94-A8C2-DF45980B275E@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <D385BFBD-9EDE-4CE6-BF8D-A6713C770EE4@adamw.org> References: <20140412035900.3C695121E45@apnoea.adamw.org> <EA3162FC-904F-4209-81D8-67CDADA357A2@adamw.org> <20140420092922.GA90642@FreeBSD.org> <B8427660C28547FE27FAF9F7@atuin.in.mat.cc> <20140420101807.GA7694@FreeBSD.org> <438AB9043DFB0608A926F949@atuin.in.mat.cc> <D385BFBD-9EDE-4CE6-BF8D-A6713C770EE4@adamw.org>
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On 20 Apr 2014, at 17:05, Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org> wrote: > Wait, hold on... if the purpose of @sample is to automatically create = real.conf files and delete them when appropriate, without end-user = intervention, then end-users should never be interacting with .sample = files in the first place. The user may still want to refer to the .sample file so that they can = see what the defaults are, whether anything has changed, and so on. > The goal shouldn't be properly-named .sample files, it should be never = clobbering conf files and ensuring that end-users never have to copy = sample files themselves. @sample should strive to always be MORE = permissive, not LESS! Integrating something like etcupdate that did a three-way merge with pkg = would indeed be very nice... David
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