Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 09:31:40 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> Cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, Garance A Drosehn <gad@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: "Chatty" config files in /etc Message-ID: <200609010931.41108.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20060901102729.GC83135@rambler-co.ru> References: <200608290920.k7T9KmV9067843@repoman.freebsd.org> <p06230922c11d0afb4107@[128.113.24.47]> <20060901102729.GC83135@rambler-co.ru>
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On Friday 01 September 2006 06:27, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 06:27:55PM -0400, Garance A Drosehn wrote: > [...] > > >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. > > > > Hmm. I am not sure that it has rotted all that much. The list > > of files might not be complete, but I've done a 'diff' between > > the files in there and files under /etc, and they all seem to > > be exactly the same. (done on 6.x-stable under PPC, not i386) > > > I think John meant something different (not sure what), because > they cannot rot in the sense of being different from files in > /etc since they are installed from the same sources (and the > same src/etc/Makefile). The rot is that it isn't a full copy of /etc, at least in my mind. -- John Baldwin
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