On Saturday, June 03, 2017 01:49:34 PM Ngie Cooper wrote:
> 
> > On Jun 3, 2017, at 12:05, John Baldwin <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> …
> 
> > Ping?  bapt@ agreed with this, but I haven't seen any other feedback?  If 
> > others
> > agree then we should either revert back to a single foo.conf or we should 
> > fully
> > split newsyslog.conf and syslogd.conf out to individual files.
> 
> Please, no. The single monolithic foo.conf idea may have made sense back in 
> the day, but with the various knobs that are available for building the 
> system, for ease-of-use/intuitiveness the feature makes sense.
> I planned on introducing more of these files for other areas of the system 
> that aren’t currently being handled— like bsnmpd’s logging, etc. I think the 
> modularization makes sense.

To be clear, I listed two options, and you have only implemented a third
(which is to mix the two styles).  I think mixing the two styles is the
absolute worst thing to do.  If we are going to split a given foo.conf
up we should split it up fully so that the out-of-box configuration for
a given daemon is consistent.

-- 
John Baldwin
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