On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 09:08:46PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Ken Moffat wrote:
> >>
> >   Bruce, I was merely wondering if it would be better to encourage a
> > manual configuration in this case.  The sed should be good enough.
> >
> >   Looking at the current text, I don't feel any pressing need to
> > change the explanatory wording, apart from mentioning why a sed is
> > now needed for the 'defaults'.
> 
> Are you suggesting:
> 
> sed -i -e '/Token/s/y$/n/' config.in
> 

 Whatever :-)  I haven't downloaded the source.

> That would be the minimum, although there are a lot of things in 
> net-tools where unneeded things are built:
> 
> IPX
> Appletalk
> packet radio
> X.25
> Econet
> Ash
> ARCnet
> SLIP
> PPP
> IPIP
> STRIP
> DLCI
> FDDI
> HIPPI
> HDLC
> IrDA
> EUI-64
> InfiniBand
> 

 Some of those are things I recognise as 'old, probably obsolete for
most people', but a few are probably still in use by some people
(PPP) and InfiniBand is definitely current, although most of us
won't have the equipment.

 But as I said, after I re-read the current text I think it is
already adequately explained.

> We could create a downloadable input file and then do:
> 
> make config < net-tools-recommended.txt
> 
> There are other options:  create the file with an echo or make a patch 
> to change all the defaults to exclude the above irrelevant options.
> 
>    -- Bruce

 If you or anyone else wants to spend the time on it, I guess a HERE
document to create net-tools-recommended.txt would be better.  For
the moment, I don't think it's urgent.

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