Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2017 19:11:38 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: "Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya)" <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>, Ngie Cooper <ngie@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-10@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r320222 - in stable/10: etc etc/cron.d etc/mtree etc/newsyslog.conf.d etc/pam.d etc/syslog.d tools/build/mk usr.sbin/cron/cron usr.sbin/cron/lib usr.sbin/syslogd Message-ID: <201707040211.v642BcKX048573@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <f9d18800-4813-fccd-4955-17c71deafe8a@FreeBSD.org>
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> On 6/22/17 4:02 AM, Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya) wrote: > > > >> On Jun 22, 2017, at 00:35, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > > ? > > > >> Please revert the breakout of the existing config files. I think that splitting > >> up the conf files is too disruptive of a change (POLA) for stable branches. > > > > Done in r320229 and r320230. > > I haven't checked if this was merged to 11, but if so, I think they should also > stay a single conf file in 11 for the same reason. I believe it WAS merged to 10, since that didnt get gated by a request to RE@, can we please get the splitting of these files backed out of the stable/10 branch? > >> This was agreed to by other folks in the followup thread to the commits in > >> head that you continue to ignore. > > > > > >> In head please either fully split up the files or revert to a single file > >> (another part of that thread you continue to ignore). > > > > My eyes glazed over trying to read through all of the posts. I seem to have missed the point where a proposed change was made to split up the config files further. Could this please be summarized again? > > I think that having the files partially split up is the worst of both > worlds as folks writing config management rules, etc. have to use > different approaches depending on the rule. I think that is a headache > and would rather have the config either be all in a single file, or all > be split up into conf.d/ so that it is consistent. I also think that > when splitting up a conf file we should do it all at once so that there is > only one painful /etc merge instead of several of them. > > -- > John Baldwin > > -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@freebsd.org
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