cvs commit: src/etc/dma Makefile
Johannes Hofmann
Johannes.Hofmann at gmx.de
Thu Feb 14 09:04:42 PST 2008
Matthias Schmidt <matthias at dragonflybsd.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> * Matthew Dillon wrote:
>> Use the defaults mechanism. /etc/<blah> overriides /etc/defaults/<blah>.
>> /etc/defaults/<blah> is owned by the build system, /etc/<blah> is owned
>> by the user.
>
> This is fine for system config files containing a lot of entries. If we
> start to introduce this for every daemon/$whatever we end up with a
> mess of default files. I agree with Simon and would vote for a more
> sophisticated solution which involves merging the differences or
> something similar to that.
I like the simple /etc/defaults/ mechanism a lot. It works and is easy to
understand. Why do you think more files in /etc/defaults/ would create a mess?
I'd say it's much cleaner than any automated config file merging.
Regards,
Johannes
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