On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Nikolay Sturm wrote: > * frantisek holop [2009-03-19]: > > some packages seem to have example config files and > > ask the user explicitly to copy it to /etc and tailor it. > > > > some also put this file into /etc during pkg_add. > > and i guess some do entirely differently :] > > As always, it depends. There are some programs out there, providing > configuration examples which don't really make any sense as default > config. In that case, I would advise the user to configure their > software manually. Other programs provide usable defaults in their > config files, making it sensible to install them to SYSCONFIDR by > default. But that's just my opinion...
I agree. But there is also another solution. Patch the configuration examples when they don't make sense so that they use sensible defaults and then install them to SYSCONFDIR. -- Antoine
