At 5:21 PM -0400 8/31/06, John Baldwin wrote:
On Thursday 31 August 2006 16:09, Garance A Drosehn wrote:
> At 8:48 AM -0400 8/31/06, John Baldwin wrote:
> >
>This is already spelled /usr/share/examples/etc in FreeBSD.
Actually, as it stands right now that is not quite the same
thing. Right now /usr/share/examples/etc holds *exact copies*
of the files we install in /etc, for the reasons as described
in /usr/share/examples/etc/README.examples :
I was thinking of /usr/share/examples/ppp (I thought it had
been under /usr/share/examples/etc/ppp). Having
/usr/share/examples/etc in its current form really isn't all
that useful as for one thing it has rotted a bunch.
Hmm. I am not sure that it has rotted all that much. The list
of files might not be complete, but I've done a 'diff' between
the files in there and files under /etc, and they all seem to
be exactly the same. (done on 6.x-stable under PPC, not i386)
I think instead that we should repurpose it for expanded
versions of files.
I have no objection to this. I do think it is kinda nice to
have it the way it is, but I have no objection if others feel it
should be changed. I did find it a little confusing to have
both /usr/share/examples/pf and /usr/share/examples/etc/pf.conf .
The current format of /etc/printcap should be an example
file for example (it fits with /usr/share/examples/ppp style)
and I think we shouldn't even have an /etc/printcap installed
by default.
As the maintainer of lpr, I'd say that I want some /etc/printcap
to exist. I just want it to be a very short file, with almost
no comments. Almost all of the comments in the current version
should be moved to a separate "examples" file.
--
Garance Alistair Drosehn = [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Senior Systems Programmer or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY; USA
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