This has come up a few times including splitting make.conf up into subfiles. However, this sort of approach becomes hazadous to both new users to linux, and experianced users from other distros.
Keep it all together and avoid the fragmentation of related information, and leave the very useful verbose comments in place: this works for the majority of users. As far as annoying updates: make.conf is very central to the system, so it requires special care in updating Perhaps a better etc-update is needed: I have had a few disasters with that one and the crappy default diff, and vimdiff. I do like the idea that if a file is unchanged, it gets updated automaticly (not silently though!) as etc-update doesnt appear to do this well at the moment. On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 11:08, Martin Schlemmer wrote: > On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 02:57, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 20:26, Steven Elling wrote: ... > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
