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Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1996 16:30:02 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> It means if you have changes in your /etc directory from the
> distribution (you have to have *some* changes), that you need to
> carefully merge them with updated /usr/src/etc/ files by hand.  It's
> not a process that can be automated.

Though I've always felt that the files which were supposed to be
non-mutable files (like /etc/netstart) should probably get installed
by a make world.  It would help narrow the number of custom files
which need to be revisited each time.

					Jordan