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Date:      Fri, 1 Sep 2006 01:34:35 +0400
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Garance A Drosehn <gad@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: "Chatty" config files in /etc
Message-ID:  <20060831213435.GA63400@rambler-co.ru>
In-Reply-To: <200608311721.14081.jhb@freebsd.org>
References:  <200608290920.k7T9KmV9067843@repoman.freebsd.org> <200608310848.30549.jhb@freebsd.org> <p0623091fc11cee9097e7@[128.113.24.47]> <200608311721.14081.jhb@freebsd.org>

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On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 05:21:13PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Thursday 31 August 2006 16:09, Garance A Drosehn wrote:
> > At 8:48 AM -0400 8/31/06, John Baldwin wrote:
> > >On Thursday 31 August 2006 06:18, Tom Rhodes wrote:
> > >>  On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 14:00:04 +0400
> > >  > Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > >>
> > >  > > No, /etc/defaults are different beasties -- they are true
> > >>  > default config files -- they are either used if there's no
> > >>  > corresponding version under /etc, or most likely sourced
> > >>  > to provide defaults.  To be moved to /etc/defaults, a file
> > >>  > should gain the same property.
> > >>
> > >>  While this comment is blatently obvious: /etc/examples
> > >
> > >This is already spelled /usr/share/examples/etc in FreeBSD.
> >=20
> > Actually, as it stands right now that is not quite the same
> > thing.  Right now /usr/share/examples/etc holds *exact copies*
> > of the files we install in /etc, for the reasons as described
> > in /usr/share/examples/etc/README.examples :
>=20
> I was thinking of /usr/share/examples/ppp (I thought it had
> been under /usr/share/examples/etc/ppp).  Having
> /usr/share/examples/etc in its current form really isn't all
> that useful as for one thing it has rotted a bunch.  I think
> instead that we should repurpose it for expanded versions of
> files.  The current format of /etc/printcap should be an example
> file for example (it fits with /usr/share/examples/ppp style)
> and I think we shouldn't even have an /etc/printcap installed
> by default.  Same with /etc/hosts.allow.
>=20
/usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf is the example to follow.


Cheers,
--=20
Ruslan Ermilov
ru@FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer

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