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Date:      Tue, 14 May 1996 04:48:21 -0700
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Knobs in /etc/sysconfig 
Message-ID:  <1142.832074501@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 May 1996 13:01:41 %2B0930." <199605140331.NAA21899@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> 

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> Hmm.  Possibly the only strategic change I'd be inclined to make would be
> to keep all the 'template' intelligence somewhere else out of the way
> (/var/config/sysconfig.hints?), and just emit the settings and comments

Sounds reasonable to me!

> Hmm.  Preferences?  Embed it all in /etc/sysconfig (and make it vulnerable
> to editor damage, but obvious to the user), or use a seperate template?

A separate template, say in /usr/share/misc, sounds fine to me.
That'll make propagation of future knobs easier as well.

					Jordan



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