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Date:      Sun, 1 Jun 1997 10:56:48 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca>
To:        Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Cc:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: LINT and GENERIC - between a rock and a generic place.
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.93.970601105542.22137E-100000@gnostic.cynic.net>
In-Reply-To: <199705312136.OAA11743@phaeton.artisoft.com>

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On Sat, 31 May 1997, Terry Lambert wrote:

> The config needs to be seperated into "machine" and "usage"
> portions, IMO.  Maybe adding the ability to use #include (or
> equivalent) is really the thing to do, instead.

If it's of any interest, NetBSD did add an `include' facility to
config. sys/arch/i386/conf/GENERIC, for example, has

    include "arch/i386/conf/std.i386"

at the top, which includes a bunch of standard options that nobody
can live without (EXEC_AOUT, for example).

cjs

Curt Sampson    cjs@portal.ca		Info at http://www.portal.ca/
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