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Date:      13 Dec 1998 13:32:57 +0100
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
To:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
Cc:        John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>, jb@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc Makefile
Message-ID:  <xzp4sr043ye.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: Mark Murray's message of "Sun, 13 Dec 1998 10:25:32 %2B0200"
References:  <199812122318.KAA27548@cimlogic.com.au> <199812130825.KAA17866@greenpeace.grondar.za>

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Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> writes:
> John Birrell wrote:
> > > What *would* be useful is a patch that finds missing files and warns
> > > about them.
> > But that won't meet the requirements of those who say that missing files
> > is a normal case. Committing such a change will generate just as many
> > emails from people who don't like _that_.
> How about installing them as <file>.sample as a hint?

Better, but not sufficient; it assumes that the user checks 'ls
/etc/*sample' after make world. For such a feature to have any effect,
you have to somehow warn the user about missing files, e.g. by mailing
a list to root.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no

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