From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 10 2:28:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5E6115074 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 02:28:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id TAA13960; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 19:28:26 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <36E6451C.67B16009@newsguy.com> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 19:10:36 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: paul@originative.co.uk Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: new loader.rc stuff References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG paul@originative.co.uk wrote: > > Hmm, feeling of deja-vu here :-) It was on purpose. :-) > Why do we need three levels of config files? Can't we make do with two? Yes, two are enough. > Configuration of the system is becoming more and more of a horrible mess of > spaghetti. That's an unavoidable trade off of flexibility. > I think /boot/defaults/loader.conf and /boot/loader.conf should be enough. > It's just confusing otherwise, if I change something with sysinstall I may, > or may not, cause an effect depending on whether I've twiddled the same knob > in loader.conf.local. Then don't use loader.conf.local. > I see sysinstall as just an alternative user interface to vi or emacs for > editing options. Is there something awkward about the way sysinstall works > that requires it to have its own config file? No. Well, sysinstall doesn't even touch these files yet, but I don't expect it to do anything strange. You can safely use just two files. If you don't want a third (or fourth, fifth, whatever) file, just do not create/use them. There are people who *really* prefer not to have their stuff touched by anything. That's why the support exists. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "FreeBSD is Yoda, Linux is Luke Skywalker." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message