Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 12:59:25 -0500
From: Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net>
To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>, Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org>
Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: minor heads up - /etc/make.conf{,.local} being moved
Message-ID: <19991102125925.A28816@netmonger.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911022230130.3716-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>; from Jason C. Wells on Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 10:41:19PM %2B0000
References: <381F1B08.AF4E0585@gorean.org> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911022230130.3716-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
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On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 10:41:19PM +0000, Jason C. Wells wrote: > Put me down as wanting two files. An extra file is just more shtuff to > keep track of. I too am iffy on /etc/defaults. If the purpose of defaults > is to keep "standard" things in isolation then lets do that. Begrudgingly, > defaults do clean up /etc a bit. It makes mergemastering easier too. The > defaults will be better when they become more complete. The thing about the defaults/foo.conf, foo.conf, foo.conf.local scheme is that you don't _have_ to use foo.conf.local if you don't want to. Some of us have a use for it, such as putting site configuration in foo.conf, and machine configuration in foo.conf.local. -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications chris@netmonger.net info@netmonger.net http://www.netmonger.net Free yourself, free your machine, free the daemon -- http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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