From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 10 14:49:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA02654 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 10 Apr 1997 14:49:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA02648 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 1997 14:49:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id OAA01531; Thu, 10 Apr 1997 14:46:34 -0700 (PDT) To: proff@suburbia.net cc: nate@mt.sri.com, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, terry@lambert.org, sef@kithrup.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: on the subject of changes to -RELEASEs... In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 10 Apr 1997 18:52:44 +1000." <19970410085245.11057.qmail@suburbia.net> Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 14:46:33 -0700 Message-ID: <1527.860708793@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > A reliable union layer would solve all these cases where one has > a standard "template" file that may or may not receive modification. And that's where you lost me. I was more interested in real solutions, Julian. :-) Jordan