David Douthitt wrote:
> 
> There's an annoyance that comes up only in development,
> and I was wondering how others handle it.
> 
> The problem is this: a development cycle (for me, anyway)
> goes like this: boot, fiddle, doesn't work.... fix,
> reboot, fiddle, fiddle, reboot, fiddle... NOW it works...
> 
> However..... NOW the disk image is configured for my
> environment, and needs to be cleaned out.
> 
> The usual way is to go back through ALL configurations,
> reading and using grep, et al.
> 
> Isn't there a better way?
> 
> I was wondering... what if you set up some sort of new
> <pkg>.cf (for configuration files) or <pkg>.sane (for sane
> configuration :) file (or whatever it is) that allows you to
> ERASE those files entirely.  This would assume that the
> configuration files are matched by <conffile>-dist
> files for example...

This is pretty much where Serge Caron came in with `enclosures' . . . at
least, part of his enclosure construct does exactly what you describe .
. .

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