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. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
