Matthias Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
