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Date:      Mon, 23 Sep 2002 16:10:59 +0100
From:      Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org>
To:        Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: periodic(8)-produced diffs
Message-ID:  <20020923151059.GJ23343@spc.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020923150536.GB30361@freepuppy.bellavista.cz>
References:  <20020923150536.GB30361@freepuppy.bellavista.cz>

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On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 05:05:36PM +0200, Roman Neuhauser wrote:
[... re periodic diffs]
> And, what would the preferred interface be? Most of periodic.conf knobs
> are bools, but I'm not sure
> diff_{context,traditional,unified}_format="{YES,NO}"
> is better than
> diff_format="{context,traditional,unified}"

No reason why rc.conf knobs *have* to be bools, what ultimately matters is
the case...esac which parses them. I'd avoid relying on a default value
in /etc/defaults/rc.conf for the sake of robustness.

I prefer unified diffs, personally.

BMS

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