Re: cvs commit: src/etc/dma Makefile

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Johannes Hofmann wrote:
> Matthias Schmidt <matthias@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.

Because you'd have to modify every single program to read defaults from 
one place and overrides from another.  Most programs/configs don't work 
this way.

cheers
  simon

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