Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 09:12:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Philip Hallstrom <freebsd@philip.pjkh.com> To: Jaroslav Kucher <freebsd@blues.kiev.ua> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recommended behaviour for "example" configuration files Message-ID: <20050630091104.N75408@wolf.pjkh.com> In-Reply-To: <1576196089.20050630115129@blues.kiev.ua> References: <1576196089.20050630115129@blues.kiev.ua>
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> Kindly advice what is recommended actions for the "example" > configuration files after the port application install. > > From the point of package database the removing or moving those files > will cause database inconsistency. > > From the point of administrator to have a lot of useless files in > configuration directories is unwanted . > > Example: after installations of amavis-new port there was 3 sample > files in /usr/local/etc/ directory: > > *amavisd.conf-default > *amavisd.conf-dist > *amavisd.conf-sample I tend to leave them there unless it's an application I'm really familiar with as I find the samples tend to have pretty good comments and I might want to go back and look at them. I agree though, they do get in the way at times, but when I have removed them, I don't remember pkg_delete every complaining about it... maybe a warning that it couldn't find the file (which might be a problem if you for other pkg_* commands)... -philip
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